TeleVue Panoptic 27mm

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Brand and Model:TeleVue Panoptic 27mm
Price ($USD):$330.00
Type:Misc Wide Angle
Focal Length:27 mm
Barrel Size:2 in
Apparent FOV:68.0 degrees
Field Stop Dia.:30.5 mm
Eye Relief:16 mm
Elements:6
Weight (lbs):1.1
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TeleVue Panoptic 27mm
Last evening was first light with this magnificent eyepiece and it was hard to stop viewing with it. I was viewing with an f/8 6" Newtonian and the combination was excellent. Open clusters like M6 were just superb. The exit pupil is just right for me and stars are sharp throughout the FOV. It is a beautifully made, compact, high quality occular that I will use for a long time.

Overall Rating: 10
Optics:10 Value:10
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TeleVue Panoptic 27mm
An excellent 2" medium low power eyepiece for any scope that accepts 2" eyepieces! I chose this eyepiece over the 35mm Panoptic for my f/5 Newtonian because the 35mm had too large an exit pupil leaving my less then perfect skies a little washed out. The eyepiece is sharp edge-to-edge and the eye relief is just right. I have yet to notice pincushion distortion when viewing astronomical targets. It is noticable when looking as a daytime target that has straight lines in it. I believe this minor problem is blown way out of proportion. In any case you are buying top quality optics and excellent customer support. Unlike most other eyepieces Tele Vue eyepieces are 100% quality checked and if you drop one it can be repared by the manufacturer. Try that with a Meade SWA sometime!

Overall Rating: 10
Optics:10 Value:10
Weight: 10 (Trustworthy Vote)
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TeleVue Panoptic 27mm
Bit the bullet and bought 2 for my binocular newtonian. This eyepiece is a serious piece of glass and metal, fairly heavy for its size. Image is very sharp, good eye relief, no kidney bean, no ghosting, very slight lateral color on very bright objects like the moon. I find it reasonbly comfortable in the binocular, just about the biggest eyepiece I can use without the barrels touching, giving the biggest field of view possible in my scopes. The Hasselblad of eyepieces, hard to find any fault with the construction and workmanship.

As with all Panoptics, however, the pincushion distortion is significant. Panning around the sky with them can make one seasick. Once stable, the effect is not noticable unless you are looking at the moon or daytime objects where their shape is known. For the price, it seems that this flaw should be made to go away, but I suppose even Al Nagler cannot change the laws of physics.

This is my standard eyepiece for low power. I like it better than the 22 panoptic, I also have the 19 which is an equally fine lens. Very comfortable for me, but others have complained that the top surface is too big in diameter and does not fit their eye very well. If you want sharpness, you can't beat this lens if you can pay for it.

Overall Rating: 9
Optics:9 Value:8
Weight: 5 (Veritable Vote)
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TeleVue Panoptic 27mm
For a 10"F/5,6 dob, this is the perfect EP for low powers. Gives 1.3 degrees and shows only a little coma on the brightest stars about 80% the way out. Fortunately, that is the only aberration seen in this eyepiece. Contrast is still very good in the coma areas, no astigmatism, pincushion is there, of course, but everything else is so perfect in this, it is a menial price to pay.

I used to have a 35mm panoptic, and it was nice. But the exit pupil was a little too big, the sky was too bright, and there was a milky softening after about 60% out, plus coma, and some astigmatism. So I bought a 40mm Pentax XL, which was much much worse, plus bad field curvature.

Basically, for this size/speed telescope, I won't be looking for anything else past the 27mm panoptic for low power finder and viewing eyepiece.

Overall Rating: 10
Optics:9 Value:10
Weight: 5 (Veritable Vote)
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TeleVue Panoptic 27mm
Best low power eyepiece for a 14.5" f4.3 reflector, had the 31mm Nagler but because of it's weight I use this eyepiece much more

Overall Rating: 10
Optics:10 Value:10
Weight: 5 (Veritable Vote)
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TeleVue Panoptic 27mm
This is probably my favorite eyepiece for viewing open star clusters. In my TOA 130 it produces 39X with an incredibly sharp and wide FOV. The Orion nebula (M42/M43) is beautifully framed with all 4 stars of the trapezium well resolved amidst the swirls of nebulosity. The sharpest eyepiece in my set. The ~10% increase in magnification over the Panoptic 35 is sometimes the difference in seeing a myriad of tiny stars instead of a hazy patch. I highly recommend this eyepiece.

Overall Rating: 10
Optics:10 Value:10
Weight: 5 (Veritable Vote)
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TeleVue Panoptic 27mm
I have a f6 7" Mak-Newt , certified 1/8th wave .97 strehl. I just spent an entire evening running this EP through the ringer. Put stars in perfect focus in the center FOV and moved them to the edge. Every star as it moved to the field stop and out of view was in perfect focus. True pinpoint to the edge. I just sold my University Optics mk-70 25mm konig after receiving my Pan 27mm. The UO is a good EP, especially for the money, but the stars got comatic at the outside 25%. The Pan 27mm is truely a premium EP and its one that I will always keep. Tac sharp stars ALL THE WAY TO THE EDGE, black background, huge FOV. And I could easily see all 3 galaxies in the same FOV when looking at Andomeda. And the brightnest and contrast!!! Seemed like a new scope. Another nice thing about this EP is its size. Very manageable and not too heavy. Smaller then my Nagler T4 12mm with almost the same space walk feeling. Highly recommended.

Overall Rating: 10
Optics:10 Value:9
Weight: 5 (Veritable Vote)
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TeleVue Panoptic 27mm
My first impression was how small the 27 panoptic really is. It still weighs 1.1 pound but it seems half the size of the 14mm UWA. The multicoatings are very nice, and the overall impression I got using this eyepiece with my 4" f/10 refractor was that the panoptic was much like a UO Konig, without the astigmatism at the edge. The light throughput, sharpness, and general magic feel was definately there. This is a super eyepiece for framing the Andromeda galaxy and it's two companions in my scope. It was an impulse buy for me, the price was right, and I don't regret it! No astigmatism by the way at this f/ratio, eye placement must be centered however for pinpoint stars throughout the fov.
Jeff Quinn

Overall Rating: 9
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TeleVue Panoptic 27mm
Very sharp and bright. Slight astigmatism at edge on fast reflectors, but that is to be expected. Chose this EP because it is generally sharper than 35mm Panoptic. Could not get 35mm to focus in Televue 5.5" refractor. Also much more moderate in size and weight than 35mm or 31mm Nagler.

Overall Rating: 9
Weight: 4 (Unreliable Vote)
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TeleVue Panoptic 27mm
This with out question is my favorite low power eyepiece. It works beautifully in my Starmaster 12.5 f/5 dob, C8, and my Celestron 102mm FL f/9 Refractor. Stars are pinpoint. Contrast is excellent. Edge correction and field flatness are at the level of the best of my eyepieces. In never fails to satisfy. It's a great one, and comes highly recommended.

JoeM

Overall Rating: 10
Weight: 4 (Unreliable Vote)
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