TeleVue Plossl 55mm


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Brand and Model:TeleVue Plossl 55mm
Price ($USD):$228.00
Type:Plossl
Focal Length:55 mm
Barrel Size:2 in
Apparent FOV:50.0 degrees
Field Stop Dia.:46.0 mm
Eye Relief:20 mm
Elements:4
Weight (lbs):1.3
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TeleVue Plossl 55mm
Great views with my LX200 7" Maksutov. The FOV is only a little more than a degree with this f/15 scope, the most I can hope for with this long focal length scope. The eyepiece was included in the TeleVue Deluxe Rich Field Kit with the 2" Premium Mirror Star Diagonal and 2" visual back that I purchased in March, a week after I purchased the scope. The 1.25" Star Diagonal that came with the 7" is trash (very milky, low contrast), and I knew it had to go from the first peek through it.
All stars are perfect pinpoints throughout the entire field with no odd colors, etc. Very good for large Globulars like M13. The view of the Beehive cluster in Cancer is an incredible sight. I had to keep going back during the night for another look at it last Friday and Saturday. I love this eyepiece and the 2" mirror diagonal that came with it. Anytime I take out the scope with friends I always hear "Put the monster in.", refering to the size of this large eyepiece.

Bryan D. Gatewood
Pueblo, Colorado
1gateb@home.com

Overall Rating: 10
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TeleVue Plossl 55mm
I liked this eyepiece so much I sold my Panoptic 35mm. Performs like a dream in my 5" f/8 apo refractor. Bright, crisp and sharp stars to the edge. No distortions whatsoever and a perfectly flat and true field. Very comfortable eye relief, no blackout areas and superb biuld quality. This ep has become my default "finder" and wide field ep. If you are used to the widest field complex eyepiece designs, the TV 55 may seem claustrophobic to you. But those complex eps introduce a lot of abberations such as coma, astigmatism, pincushion distortion etc to achieve their results. I liked this ep becuase of the "true to photon" images it provides and doesn't degrade the optical path (why do observers willingly introduce such aberrations into their telescopes <gg>?). Its #1 in my book

Overall Rating: 10
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TeleVue Plossl 55mm
Excellent in every respect. Absolutely positively sharp to the edge. Completely distortion free. No field curvature, pincushion, coma, nothing. Contrast is great, coatings very, very dark. Eye positioning is critical, but micro-adjustable rubber eyecup makes this a snap. One of the few widest-field eyepieces that has no distortion of any kind.

Overall Rating: 10
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TeleVue Plossl 55mm
I must say fellows..this is one very good eyepiece. Very impressive especially with long focal length instuments where you can see how well it is engineered by getting the magnification up there...not to hide coma or color problems, as there are none. I am tough on ratings, but this one is a real winner.

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TeleVue Plossl 55mm
I bought this eyepiece more as a curiosity because it is as much as you can get in a 2in format. There is no field stop! It gives me 51x with a FOV of 1 degree in my C11!! That's as low as I can go without a focal reducer. After using 65+ degree EPs on a regular basis, it is a little claustrophobic to use. It does give sharp, contrasty views, though. I put this one down a speciality EP for affectionados. You can get the almost the same FOV with the 35 Panoptic + larger image scale. Don't use it much, but it stays in my permanent collection.

Overall Rating: 7
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&gt;I bought this eyepiece more as a curiosity because it is as much as you can get in a 2in format. There is no field stop! It gives me 51x with a FOV of 1 degree in my C11!! That's as low as I can go without a focal reducer. After using 65+ degree EPs on a regular basis, it is a little claustrophobic to use. It does give sharp, contrasty views, though. I put this one down a speciality EP for affectionados. You can get the almost the same FOV with the 35 Panoptic + larger image scale. Don't use it much, but it stays in my permanent collection. 

When you say this TV 55mm PL has no field stop, it sounds like it is simply vignetting at the edges. For example I have a TV 32mm Plossl (bought in 2012 approx) with a sharp black field stop, however when I put it in my C11 I find the eye lens height a little too low, so I end up unscrewing the bottom of my Barlow lens part from my Relevation (GSO) Barlow and then use the Barlow tube as an extension tube which brings the ep to the correct height, BUT the tube has a restricted opening to accept the Barlow lens element section, which causes the 32mm PL to vignette around the edges and create a &quot;new&quot; blurred &quot;field stop&quot; inside the original one (I can still see the original field stop if I look carefully). Sounds like your 2&quot; SCT adapter on your C11 (the 3.25&quot; to 2&quot; step down part, like mine) has an opening which is less than the 55mm's 46mm field stop and is causing a blurred edge to appear? Please check this and confirm it for me? Another way of confirming this is for me to ask, does the 55mm have a sharp black edge to the circle of light that you see when you look through the ep with no 'scope and no diagonal? BTW you can get a clear 2&quot; aperture by using the &quot;Astro Physics 2&quot; Visual Back for Celestron 11&quot; &amp; 14&quot; SCT&quot; or &quot;Baader 2&quot; Clicklock Adapter for 3.25&quot; SCTs&quot;. Make sure to get the Celestron 3.25&quot; not Meade 3.25&quot; thread! They use slightly different threads!

TeleVue Plossl 55mm
My finest eyepiece after my Zeiss/Dokter.
Very sharp.

daSentinel

Overall Rating: 9
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TeleVue Plossl 55mm
The FOV is sharp and distortion-free all the way to the edge. I find the apparent field of only 43 degrees a bit tunnel-like, but the true field is large. The eye relief is just perfect for me with glasses and there are no significant blackouts. With a short focal length scope and this eyepiece, you won't need a finder scope! It's great for quickly picking out Messier objects with a 4" refractor. This is not a necessary eyepiece and not everyone will find it useful. However, I'll definitely keep it around and I do use it for specific purposes.

Overall Rating: 9
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&gt;I find the apparent field of only 43 degrees a bit tunnel-like

43 degrees? TeleVue themselves list this as having a 50 degree AFOV. I think you may be talking about the TeleVue 40mm Plossl?

TeleVue Plossl 55mm
Putting this Televue 55mm Plossl in the light path of my CG-14 is just incredible. A must for deep sky fans with this scope.

Overall Rating: 10
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TeleVue Plossl 55mm
WOW!!! A must for deep sky fans

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TeleVue Plossl 55mm
Very good eye relief. 10,000 times better than the Meade 56mm Plossl. No comparison. However, when I look through this ep, I feel like I am looking through a tunnel. Sharp to the edges and good contratst.

Overall Rating: 7
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