At 8:14 PM -0800 1/2/98, Kip Peterson wrote:
>Hello all, and Happy New Year!
>
>Fro Christmas, I received from my spouse a Tele Vue 35 mm Panoptic
>eyepiece. Nice spouse, eh? Anyway, I was wondering if other LX200 10"
>f/10 owners with this eyepiece could comment on its edge-to-edge
>sharpness. I seem to note a slight edge coma, though not objectionable.
>Overall, the performance is breathtaking, but I was wondering if others
>noted the same lack of perfect focus edge-to-edge. If so, does their
>"Paracorr" product help, or is this for Newtonian scopes only, and not
>SCTs?

I believe the Paracorr is only for fast scopes. Is yours an f/10 or f/6.3?

My initial reaction to the 35mm Panoptic was the obvious non-flatness of
the field. It bothered me for a few days. But now I hardly notice it at
all. The brain is a wonderful spatial filter :-)

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San Jose, CA USA not to fool yourself." -- Feynman

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