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About Tele Vue Telescopes & Tele Vue EyepiecesTele Vue Optics has been thrilling customers for more than twenty years. It is our mission. It's in the materials we choose, the designs we create, the craftsmanship we demonstrate...the images we deliver. Creating "goodies" for the observing enthusiast has been founder Al Nagler's continuing pursuit. Al put his lifelong love of amateur astronomy to work as a professional optical designer more than 40 years ago. But, it was his involvement in designing NASA lunar landing simulators (as seen in the movie Apollo 13) that most directly influences Tele Vue products of today. Al wanted his own observing equipment to deliver that seemingly limitless vista created for the astronauts. Producing wide, full-field sharpness and high contrast images were the keys. In the midst of the eyepiece-crushing Dobsonian telescope revolution, Tele Vue launched its Plössl eyepiece design. So improved in edge sharpness, these Tele Vue eyepieces were awarded U.S. and international patents. On the consumer front, it also won acclaim - "The sharpest I've ever used" pronounced the editor of "Astronomy" in a rave review. Al's "Nagler" series heralded its own revolution in eyepieces. Called "remarkable" by the author of "Telescope Optics", it has an 82° apparent field, and 10 times the field sharpness of any previous eyepiece. Nagler Tele Vue eypieces are truly the realization of Al's dream for "spacewalk" viewing, even more so with the new long eye relief Nagler Type 4 models. Regarding other Tele Vue eyepieces, look at the celebrated Panoptic eyepieces for "tack-sharp," low power, 68° fields. And, our new 60° Radian series eyepieces with 20mm eye relief offers the most performance possible for eyeglass wearers. The performance inherent in EVERY Tele Vue eyepiece manufactured is verified for you at f/4; quality assurance available nowhere else. We even had to design our own eyepiece test equipment. No fast, sharp, flat field instrument existed to do the job. Above all, we want your Tele Vue experience to be "...even better than you imagined". |
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