Vixen Lanthanum 10mm

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Brand and Model:Vixen Lanthanum 10mm
Price ($USD):$104.50
Type:Plossl
Focal Length:10 mm
Barrel Size:1.25 in
Apparent FOV:50.0 degrees
Field Stop Dia.:0.0 mm
Eye Relief:20 mm
Elements:6
Weight (lbs):0.3
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Vixen Lanthanum 10mm
A decent mid priced eyepiece! contrast & eyerelief are good. there are better midpriced eyepieces out there, but there are also worst ones!

Overall Rating: 8
Optics:8 Value:8
Weight: 10 (Trustworthy Vote)
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Vixen Lanthanum 10mm
Excellent eyerelief of couse, but not as impressed overall with this e.p. as I expected for the price. So much glass causes a smokier image. Somewhat fainter images than compared with a 12.5 mm UO ortho at half the price. Not neccessarily saying I don't like it, it just isn't used as much as my orthos! Great on the moon! Better results in dark skies. I'm using a 10" f/4.5 dob.

Overall Rating: 8
Optics:8 Value:7
Weight: 10 (Trustworthy Vote)
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Vixen Lanthanum 10mm
Positive:
The eyerelief is great. I wear eye glasses and have strong astigmatism in my eyes. Using this eyepiece is great for me, so I can observe with glasses. Great for M57 and globulars and so on.

Negative:
Observing the planets gives some reflections in the glass surfaces. The view is a little bit "milky". I will keep this eyepiece, but will go for the TMB monocentrics for planet observations (however with out eye glasses!).
Daytime usage (sun observing with a solar screen at the objective of the telescope) is troublesome (small eyepupil). You have to position your eye very precisely at the eyepiece.

Overall Rating: 7
Optics:7 Value:7
Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote)
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Vixen Lanthanum 10mm
Superb eyepiece! Great eye relief and extremely comfortable to use. Views are a little dimmer than a friends Celestron Ultima. I bought it too replace the hopeless Meade 4000 9.7mm and it does that in style. I got mine in a sale for £50, which is fantastic value but would normally cost £100.
I'am happy to recommend it. Who cares how it compares to a TV Radian or Panoptic, thats not fair competition, they cost at least twice as much!

Overall Rating: 9
Optics:9 Value:8
Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote)
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Vixen Lanthanum 10mm
Not a very bad eyepiece but still a bad... I did many times this experience : i use a clavé 12mm after the LV 10mm and after a clavé 8mm. Each time i see less things with less contrast on a more gray background in the LV 10mm.

Overall Rating: 5
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Vixen Lanthanum 10mm
I think this eyepiece is good but not excellent. It's good for general planetary work and splitting doble stars, but for planetary nebula and other deep sky work it's not recommended. I feel it has little contrast compared to a Radian, but for beginners the difference isn't notorious. Eye relief is excellent.

Overall Rating: 9
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Vixen Lanthanum 10mm
Excellent eye relief. Good sharpness to edge. Slight ghosting. However, the view is much dimmer than a plossl of similar focal length.

Overall Rating: 6
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Vixen Lanthanum 10mm
Excellent eye relief. Brightness is a little low. Sharp to the edge.

Overall Rating: 8
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Vixen Lanthanum 10mm


My 10 mm LV Vixen is very good in the centre of optical axis with sharp image; but if the planet goes just a little out of the centre, it starts to take a chromatic aberration that grows till the edge of the eyepiece. This defect is larger in my dobson 12" F6 than my Celestron C8.
If I use the rubber guide there is not blackout but if I exclude the rubber guide, because I want use the glasses, it is enough tiring to see the image because many times disappears .

Overall Rating: 7
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Vixen Lanthanum 10mm
Excellent eye relief.
Very close to being parfocal with my 15 MM of the same LV Series.
Average on brightness.
Date: 99/06/22

Overall Rating: 8
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