Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
Very comfortable eyepiece to look through, even with glasses. My most used eyepiece.

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
Excellent but comfortable eye relief - very easy to hold the entire wide field
view. Field is tack sharp all the way across at f/6.3, with slight distortion
near edge of field at f/4.6. Gives the magnification and brightness of my 25mm
Plossl with the same true field of my 32mm Plossl. Great eyepiece for the price.

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
Decent eyepiece, good eye relief. Edge of field showed considerable astigmatism.

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
Makes a great finder eye piece. Nice mix of wide field, contrast, and magnification. Some astigmatism near edge at F6, but on axis very sharp, and the price can't be beat.

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
My most often used eyepiece! Great value for price.
Very sharp.

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
I have used this eyepiece in f/4.5 dobsonians only and my friends keep telling me over and over again what a great eyepiece this is. During star parties is seldom use it because I always end up borrowing it. I does show some distortions over the edge of the field of view, but when used with a coma corrector (I own a Celestron model) the image quality across the entire field of view is excellent and extremely sharp.

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
I must admit that I have compared the Meade 24.5 SWA with the standard mA eyepieces supplied with Meade scopes. The difference is astounding, Clear Images, crisp to the edge of the fov.

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
Used with the ETX 90/ec, this eyepiece offers uniformly pin-point, flatfield, wide-angle views, to blissfully sweep suburban skies with (56x). Superb with Celestron's 2x Ultima barlow (102x). At M42 Orion, with a Thousand Oaks 0-III nebula filter, it was beautiful, even through a cloud blanket that rolled-in to otherwise obscure all but a gibbons moon(to naked-eye seeing). Recomended for deep-sky wide-field object detection and medium power barlowed planetary views.

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
Recently bought a 14.5" truss dob and needed some good eyepieces. The first quality eyepiece I bought was this Meade 24.5mm swa and I like it very much. It's not completely clear allthe way to the edge but it's still very good. Images are bright and wide. I think it will be my most used eyepiece! Much better than any eyepiece I've ever used although I've never paid over 100$ for one until now.

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
With my 10" F6 reflector, stars are sharp in the center but start degrading about 1/2 way out and become full-blown sea gulls at the edge. With my 9" F13.5 Mak, stars start degrading about 3/4 of the way out but still acceptable at the edge. This is my favorite bino-viewing eyepiece - gives you that wide field effect and is very comfortable to use. It has much better eye relief, is lighter in weight, and costs less than the TV 19/22 Panoptics. With slower scopes (> F10), the difference in edge performance is less significant.

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
A great eyepiece. Lacks as much eye relief as some other designs. It has a flat sharp field in my F10 refractor. Some internal reflectionson bright off centered objects. Great for wide views. Eta Carina is amazing with this eyepiece. Good value for the price. Better than the 18 mm which I also own.
kevinbarker@westlandhigh.school.nz

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
This a decent eyepiece for those looking for a cheap wide field. Works very well in my G5 f/10 but is quite poor in my 10" f/4.5 dob. Views through the dob show considerable coma in 50% of the field; obviously the eyepiece cannot handle the steep light cone. But I purchased the eyepiece to serve as a inexpensive widefield and for that it has performed admirably. This use was of particularly importance in the G5 as it only takes 1 1/4" eyepieces. Contrast is good, as is eye relief. For those looking for pinpoint stars in fast scopes, however, I would suggest you look elsewhere.

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
I use this eyepiece more than any other. It is sharp, sharp, sharp. I find other people always try to borrow this from me at star parties. I highly recommend this eyepiece.

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
Nice eyepiece with great eye relief and sharpness. Probably better with slower scopes. Show astigmatism on my C8, though I'm pretty sure that this is a problem with the scope, not the eyepiece, as I see this astigmatism in all my eyepieces. Would recommend it as a good inexpensive wide-field unit.

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
wide angle, sharp images excellent low power eyepiece for starhopping to find those faint deep-sky objects. feels like it pulls you out into space.

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
I have a 8 inch, F6 Dob. This is eyepiece works beautifully as my standard eye piece. It is well made, nice field of view with crisp, clean and clear bright images to the edge. For a 1.25 inch diameter eye piece I could not ask for much more.

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
Great 1.25" eyepiece with the maximum possible field of view with a good magnification. Just comfortable with eyeglasses (a little more than the 22 Panoptic). Not as sharp at the edges as some of the competitors, but less distorted than most of the competitors.

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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
This ep works better in my f6.4 100mm refractor than in my f4.5 Dob. Much edge distortion and a slight amount of chromic aboration. So if you are looking for a good wide field ep for a longer fl refractor give this ep a look. For a little more money look at what tele view has. There are better ep's in my opinion.

Overall Rating: 6
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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
The 24.5mm Superwide seems to find its way into my diagonal for most of the night, despite some bad edge performance in my 4" f/10 vixen refractor. The view is just so wide and comfortable to hold that it will get alot of use. I think I overlook the edge performance because the on-axis performance is so good and eye relief great. Have also used the 18mm, which is a little better on optically. Great value if you can pick them up used!

Overall Rating: 8
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Meade Super Wide Angle 24.5mm
A worthy complement to my expensive 2" eyepieces used on my f/5.5 scope. I only use this to produce the widest possible field in my f/13.5 Makstov. The image quality is excellent in the Mak and doesn't degrade noticably until you are very near the edge, which is an unlikely place toexamine star images. To produce a 12mm eyepiece, I also use this with a Barlow, which works wonderfully. No vignetting or color distortion is noticable in the f/13.5 Mak. Just for a lark, I substituted this for my 22mm Nagler in my f/5.5 scope, and it did creditably well, though the star images fell apart beyond 50% of the field. A superb eyepiece for longer focal lengths and 1-1/4" focusers. Recommended.

Overall Rating: 9
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