Teleskop Express Wide-field BV

[Thewalkingastronomer]

I was intending on getting the Baader Maxbright II for my second foray into using binoviewers but the release date has been pushed back from early Dec to March 2020 and given how long they've taken to be released, i'm not holding my breath this date will be stuck to. As such i'm considering the following https://www.teleskop-express.de/shop/product_info.php/info/p11593_TS-Optics-1-25--Wide-field-Binoviewer-with-30-mm-Prisms-for-Telescopes.html but wondered if anyone had any experience of these? The T2 connection certainly helps as i need to keep the light path as short as possible to reach focus in my LZOS 105.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. 

 

[plyscope]

There was a bit of discussion on CN but no actual user reports as yet.

https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/680211-new-chineese-giant-binoviewer/

 

[Thewalkingastronomer]

Thanks, I'll check that out

[PeterW]

Still need back focus, which could introduce vignetting. The big prism would allow everything upto the 24mm panoptic/explore scientific/UFF to be used which is good.

 

peter

[Thewalkingastronomer]

Yes reading the thread plyscope posted a link to, the amount of backfocus required is a bit of a concern as I don't want to have to use a gpc or Barlow

[Louis D]

Too bad your scope didn't come with a removable section ahead of the focuser for binoviewer usage.  Some of the newer Chinese ED scopes are coming equipped with them.