Meade Series 5000 Super Wide Angle 20 mm Eyepiece Reviews
Product Type: Meade telescopes
Newest Review: ... have distortions that smear the view at the outer edges of the field. The 20mm Meade is sharp from edge to edge; amazing ... more
... considering the wide field of view. Again, this enhances the viewing experience.
What's not apparent is any chromatic aberration. Poorer quality lenses show colour fringes at high contrast edges. These are absent from the 20mm.
Using the 20mm gives, with large, diffuse objects, the chance to get a complete view of sights that would be only partially within the view of a higher magnification eyepiece.
The famous 'double cluster' in Perseus is a tremendous sight in the 20mm. The whole of the double cluster fits in t...more
Customer Meade Series 5000 Super Wide Angle 20 mm Eyepiece Reviews (1)
Meade Series 5000 Super Wide Angle 20 mm Eyepiece: Enables wonderful, wide angle views of the night sky (752 words)by - written on 19/09/09 (Very useful, 386 readings)
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Excellent quality amateur astronomy telescopes are available at a lower price than ever before. These amazing devices enable the user to view expansive star fields, glowing nebulae, the remnants of exploded stars, and galaxies so distant that their light left on its journey to us millions of years ago. The wide differences in magnification needed to view such varied objects are effected by the use of removable eyepieces. A good quality eyepiece can give enable breathtaking views of the night sky. A poor quality eyepiece on the other hand can ruin even an expensive telescope's view. Historically, all eyepieces gave narrow angle views (like looking ... Read the complete review
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