Meade Ultra Wide Angle 14mm

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Meade Ultra Wide Angle 14mm
This eyepiece is great. It's a mighty performer, can't find any faults in my 8" f/6 Newton. A perfect 10 no doubt!

Overall Rating: 10
Optics:10 Value:10
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Meade Ultra Wide Angle 14mm
After years of searching and trying every new EP that came along (in my FS-102 and C9.25), I finally got around to trying one of these “old tech” monsters. Incredibly sharp (noticeably sharper than a 13mm Nagler type 6) and contrasty over all 84 degrees, with no ghosting (!) and an incredibly comfortable eye lens! Why did I waste all that time?

P.S. Yes it’s big, and heavy, but pair it up with a 35 Pan and an 8.8 UWA and you won’t have to rebalance most scopes, while having the ultimate views to be found anywhere.

Overall Rating: 10
Optics:10 Value:10
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Meade Ultra Wide Angle 14mm
I have the older version without the eyecup. Great eyepiece! It perform just as well as my Naglers.

Overall Rating: 9
Optics:8 Value:10
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Meade Ultra Wide Angle 14mm
They'll take this away from me out of my cold dead hand. Seriously, I have owned > 100 eyepieces, and have had negaive things to say about most. Not this one. Perhaps it could be cheaper, but you won't find higher performance. It's sharp, free from ghosts, and has remarkably little kidney-bean effects unless you hold your eye too close. In most modern scopes, it produces exit pupils at or near optimum (f/5-f/8 or so). Sharpness only drops off in the outer 10% and you'll be looking at a 45 degree angle through the field lens to see that far out in the field of view. It's my most use eyepiece in my SCT, my MCT and my Newtonian. Heavy, but superb sharpness of image and my, what a wiiiiide field! Recommended. Easier to use than the other eyepieces in the Ultra-wide series. As close to perfect as the current crop of eyepieces gets. pensack1@excite.com

Overall Rating: 10
Optics:10 Value:9
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Meade Ultra Wide Angle 14mm
I;ve used this eye piece for many years , I have the older version with out the rubber eye cup , from 22 down to 4.5 inch telescopes is gives an amazing field of view and it will allways stay in my case ......

Overall Rating: 10
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Meade Ultra Wide Angle 14mm
My own personal experience through an LX90 . . . awful!
It's dim, brown, but with a great flat field.

Nagler 17mm T4 blows it away, with liquid clarity, resolution and brightness!

The 13 mm Nagler type 6 is better than this Meade, although, to its' credit, an 1.25 eyepiece. . . I'm sorry, but it's the truth . . .

I've never observed through any Meade that was better than a Nagler!

Just my two cents . . .

Overall Rating: 5
Optics:10 Value:10
Weight: 10 (Trustworthy Vote)
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>My own personal experience through an LX90 . . . awful!
>It's dim, brown, but with a great flat field.
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>Nagler 17mm T4 blows it away, with liquid clarity, resolution and brightness!
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>The 13 mm Nagler type 6 is better than this Meade, although, to its' credit, an 1.25 eyepiece. . . I'm sorry, but it's the truth . . . 
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>I've never observed through any Meade that was better than a Nagler!
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>Just my two cents . . .
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Guess what?  your 2 cents just went out the window. 
I use a 14mm UWa in my F/5 newtonian and the images right to the extreme edge are immaculate. I would highly suggest a good pair of glasses...(HAHAHA), because I myself have looked through Naglers as well and the 14mm UWA works better.
The Naglers have pincusion distortion near the edge of the field stop, whereas the 14mm UWA DOES NOT. Your rating of a 5 obviously gets outdone by all the other 9's and 10's that this immaculate eyepiece really deserves.
You must have gotten a dud bud.
Meade Ultra Wide Angle 14mm
Gives 104X in my 12.5" F/4.5 Zambuto. By far, my most used eyepiece. This is arguably the finest eyepiece ever produced in its focal class. Now I realize that Meade found a loop-hole back in the mid 80's and basically stole Al Nagler's patented design, but nobody can deny this is one awesome piece of glass. It was made more that 15 years ago and it hasn't been updated - you basically can't improve on perfection. In the meantime, Nagler releases Type 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9...100, 101 ad naseum. Hmmm...

*zips up flame suit*

Overall Rating: 10
Optics:10 Value:10
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Meade Ultra Wide Angle 14mm
This was the legendary eyepiece a few years ago; Astromart was croweded with "wanted" ads and you still see some of those. It was my first "damn the cost" eyepiece. Discussion of the eyepiece on TMB group indicates considerable variability among units. I don't think mine was bad, but after I acquired the 17mm Nagler T4 I practically ceased using it. I thought at the time it was because the Nagler yielded less power (230x vs. 280x) and was a more pleasing observing range in my f/11 instrument. After I got the Pentax XW14, however, the superior contrast (both planet detail and dso/sky background) and less light reflection pulled me back into the 14mm range again, and the Nagler has gotten much less use--has become a second string eyepiece. The 14mm UWA got sold to someone who was curious about this legend. I don't regret having owned it, but I don't miss it. I never found the perofrmance superior to the 1 for planets (I don't mind using wide fields for planet viewing becuase I like the planet--Saturn or Jupiter--and its moons) to the Nagler 17mm which I used to attribute to pushing the magnification beyond the sky conditions. Light throughput of the UWA series is not high compared to other lines of eyepieces. I have always been skeptical about assessing light throughput subjectively in the field but I am referring to some German lab data that used to be on the net (in May 2006 got posted to the TMB files section). But this data is not for the entire UWA series. So I don't want to make any assertions. But in sum we all make up our minds one way or another. I tested this eyepiece against two of its peers in price and reputation and sold the Meade 14UWA, perhaps to someone who is enthusiastically defending it in this review section.

Overall Rating: 8
Optics:8 Value:8
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