Post by Rick T-137 🥒

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Hey #astronomers ! What are your thoughts about Tele Vue re-releasing their famous 24mm Panoptic eyepiece but now without undercuts? It also appears production has shifted from Taiwan to Japan. If you have an existing 24mm Pan with the undercuts, would you consider buying the new one? If you were holding off, does the lack of an undercut encourage you to buy one? Note, Tele Vue's new range of Type 7 Naglers are also sans-undercut!

Personally, I've never had a problem with undercuts, and all my Tele Vue eyepieces have them. But I don't own the 24mm Panoptic. The fact it has no undercut has no influence on whether I'd buy one or not. How about you?

#Telescope #Astronomy #TeleVue #Panoptic #Nagler #Stargazing #Eyepieces #AstroGear #Astro

A picture of a Tele Vue 24mm Panoptic eyepiece for use in a telescope. It is a squat black coloured eyepiece with a conical top ending at the rubber eyepiece. At the bottom is a beautiful chrome plated smooth barrel which gets inserted into the telescope. Along the bottom of the black body are two horizontal green stripes with text between them: TELE VUE 24MM PANOPTIC.

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@rickt137 I only have Baader Hyperion. They are 68° as well, but much cheaper than the Televue. The latter being true 2“ eye pieces, iirc. It’s a bit sad that nowadays you can’t simply walk to an optics store and try them out.

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@root42 True! Now you buy online, try it out, and if you don't like it you sell it online! 😜

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