TeleVue BinoVue

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Brand and Model:TeleVue BinoVue
Price ($USD):1030
Type:Binoviewer
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TeleVue BinoVue
Yes, it is expensive, yes, it is heavy, but it is definitelly worth it !! Using two eyes is so much more rewarding and comfortable. I have tried it on my Portaball 12.5" and Tak SKY90. In both cases I have to use the integral (included) small 2x barlow in order to come to focus. It results in halving your eyepieces (20mm becomes 10mm).
In the Tak, I can use it with two Nagler zooms 3-6mm on street lights to test my ability to merge the images. It is supposed to be difficult with shorter focal lenths, but I can report high quality viewing and no problem to merge the images. High praise for Al Nagler, but please can you make it lighter??

Overall Rating: 9
Performance:10 Value:9
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TeleVue BinoVue
This is my first and only binoviewer and it is very impressive in quality -- like most TeleVue products. It gives incredible views of the moon and planets and the brighter deep sky objects with my 8" SCT -- great contrast, very sharp.
It also gives new meaning to daytime spotting, comfortable two-eyed viewing. With my 18" Newt objects look like they are standing out in relief from the dark background and you feel like you are in the view itself -- a whole new experience in observing. It is pricey, especially when you factor in the cost of double eyepieces (relatively inexpensive Plossls work great), but if you can afford only one accessory, you should seriously consider getting this binoviewer.

Overall Rating: 10
Performance:10 Value:10
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TeleVue BinoVue
As you can see I'am totally pleased with my binoviewer. It is a totally new experience,that blows one eyed viewing away. Your viewing the way nature intended,with two eyes. There is greater comfort, with less eyestrain. Fewer floaters at high magnifications. You just see more. Truly like looking through a port hole into space,especially with the moon and planets. Very addicative. I would not go back to one eyed viewing,but where low powered 2 inch eyepieces proved better

Overall Rating: 9
Performance:9 Value:9
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TeleVue BinoVue
Tried this BinoVue in TV 102 and Tak FS60-C. Excellent in both.
(For the Tak I had to machine an adapter to work with 1.25" star diagonal. It needs to be closer to the objective lens in order to focus at infinity. I had to use the tiny 2x barlow that comes with the binoviewer.)
Exquisite image quality in a premium refractor. I also like it for Hydrogen-Alpha solar observing. Yes it is a bit darker, but the contrast is better, and more detail is visible with both eyes. Observing comfort is much greater, and I gladly put up with the increased weight.

It is trickier to use than a single eyepiece, due to the weight and size,
yet I am glad to have it. (Ideally it should be lighter and shorter, but Al Nagler would have to get the Nobel prize for something like that in the future.)

I am tempted to shorten my TV 102 in order to have a sort of "Bizzaro 102". It would allow using the bino without a barlow, wider fields of view. Eyepieces I like in TV BinoVue: Panoptic 15 and 19mm, newest small Naglers 16 and 9mm, and TV Plossl 11mm. Does not work well for me with TV Plossl 32mm, (blackening the view is worse than in a single eyepice used alone) so I am still looking for 25-35 mm piece.

Overall Rating: 10
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TeleVue BinoVue
I don't hand out 10's, even to great performing equipment. It must be superb in every aspect. This includes value. At around a grand, and then having to get pairs of EP's, it's a big pill to swallow. You get better fast. It's a 10! At this site we all speak of "equipment". This scope can do this well, this one can't. This EP this, etc. How about a piece of equipment that seems to make everything work at it's best. I've seen more planetary detail in 2 weeks than I have in the previous 2 years. Makes $60-80 EP's(used)works of art. I use it behind a 2.5x Powermate for 5x. Not for deep-sky use(except the brightest DSO's)on scopes smaller than 15"-16"+. Splitting the light cuts apparent glare and allows for unfiltered, true color planetary views. Being parafocal lets me use it in the Mak-Newt, Mak-Cass, and the big Dob. Gives a sort of 3-D effect that has to be seen to be appreciated. Ever look through a pair of binoculars and think, "If only it were higher magnification". Truly one step closer to that "spacewalk" feel.

Overall Rating: 10
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TeleVue BinoVue
Comment to the above: I forgot to say that I do not wear glasses, and enjoyed even the new small wide Naglers, 16 and 9mm. The 9mm actually produced some minor blackening during the day, in terrestrial viewing, but I have not noticed it at night.

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