Al Nagler has taken the wide field concept and brought Nagler-like performance down to the 60°+ class of eyepiece. The result is the Panoptic, a sharp, wide field eyepiece that has kept size, weight, and cost down, whilst improving performance right to the edge of the field.
Tele Vue Panoptic 35mm
Focal length |
35mm |
Barrel Diameter |
50.8mm (2″) |
Apparent Field |
68° |
Eye relief |
24mm |
Field Stop Diameter |
38.7mm |
Lens elements/grouping |
6/4 |
Weight |
725g |
An excellent premium quality low power wide field eyepiece. It is ideal for observing large emission and reflection nebulae, Supernova Remnants and large open star clusters.
It is well-suited for any telescope with a focal ratio of f/5 or longer offering 7mm exit pupil at f/5. Works wonderfully in SCT’s for large field of view.
It has a huge 28mm of eye relief and can be used by eyeglass wearers with no vignetting of the field. This is a lot of eyepiece so its heavy weight may cause some minor concern in Dobsonians.
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