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Ultra Wide Angle Eyepiece 8mm (1.25")

Ultra Wide Angle Eyepiece 8mm (1.25") - Main image
$77.4 $129 In stock

Category: Eyepieces

Description

Introducing the new Stellarvue Ultra Wide Angle eyepiece series. This is a great moderate power wide field eyepiece for viewing all kinds of deep sky objects, the moon and planets. 

An 82 degree field of view provides the user with almost 3 times the area of a 50 degree eyepiece. When using hand driven alt-azimuth mounts this generous field will be appreciated. The eyepiece offers 12 mm of eye relief and has a standard foldable rubber eye cup. Each of the seven elements are fully multi-coated, edge blackened and the lens barrel and baffles are similarly dark black. All of these factors add up to create an extremely contrasty eyepiece that is free of unwanted reflections, flaring or ghosting. 

We recommend this as the ideal lower power lunar, planetary and double star eyepiece for those who observe without glasses. Otherwise, we recommend our Planetary 6.1 mm Eyepiece which has greater eye relief but a smaller FOV. 

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Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Thomas B. ★★★★★

The 8mm focal length gives me a really nice balance of magnification and field of view for sweeping through star clusters. I spent an hour just hopping between globular clusters in Sagittarius, and the image stayed crisp right to the edge.

George K. ★★★★★

That thin black ring around the barrel is actually a nice grippy surface—makes swapping eyepieces in the dark way easier. Jupiter’s bands were crisp right to the edges, and the moon had sharp contrast without any purple fringing I could see.

Victoria X. ★★★★★

I set this up for a night of deep-sky viewing and the 8mm focal length gave me crisp, detailed views of the Orion Nebula's core. The wide field really made the cluster pop without needing to nudge the scope. It's a solid performer for the price.