Buy 8mm Orion Stratus Wide-Field Eyepiece8mm Orion Stratus Wide-Field Eyepiece Product Description:
- The ultimate in viewing comfort - this 8mm telescope eyepiece sports a monster 1-1/4"-diameter eye lens and a generous 20mm eye relief
- An ideal eyepiece for high-power yet wide-field views of the Moon, planets and bright deep sky objects through a telescope
- Offers a 68-degree apparent field of view for a nice and wide window into the heavens
- Eyepiece optics are fully multi-coated and feature blackened lens edges for maximized light transmission and excellent contrast
- Usable in both 1.25" and larger 2" telescope focusers thanks to its dual-purpose body
Product Description
Enjoy a wide-field window into the heavens served up by Stratus eyepieces. With an apparent field of 68-deg -- which translates to a 71% greater viewing area than that of a typical Plossl -- Stratus eyepieces quite literally put more stars in your eyes. In the same way you feel more a part of the action watching a big-screen TV, with Stratus you will feel like you are really experiencing your celestial targets, rather than just viewing them from afar. Each ocular features a monster 1-1/4"-diameter eye lens to look into. Each also has a generous 20mm of eye relief, so you'll get the big picture even if you wear eyeglasses. The optics are fully multi-coated to maximize light transmission to your eyes, and the lens edges are blackened to ensure excellent contrast. Stratus eyepieces fit in both 1.25" and 2" focusers. Each is threaded for filters and comes with protective lens caps.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
High power with high comfort
By Terry Durbin
The wide field of view and long eye relief on the Stratus 8mm make high-power viewing a joy. It also takes a Barlow very well. Saturn and it's moons are stunning, and I even use it on faint galaxies. I will buy more of these great eyepieces.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.Great Eyepiece
By Lauren H. Robison
I may not be Edwin Hubble or Carl Sagan nor do I have the biggest and best scope in the world. But I do have a nice mid range scope in an Orion XT8 Dobsonian and this eyepiece 17mm along with the 13mm and the 8mm that I purchased are my favorites by far. Terrific field of view and very high quality. It may not be a Nagler but at a fraction of a Nagler price, it makes beautiful images in my eyes. Love it and highly recommend this. They are heavy by the way and just so you know, they are the same eyepieces as Baader Hyperions. Oh I also like the big mm numbers Orion has stenciled on the side of the eyepieces. Makes it much easier to see in the dark. Highly recommended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
This eyepiece is Modular! it's basically two eyepieces in one.
By Kevin
I have an Orion XT8. This eyepiece has excellent apparent field of view. One thing that it doesn't really say anywhere is that this eyepiece is modular! There is a bottom part that you can simply unscrew and turn this eyepiece into a longer focal length eyepiece (2 inch only then). So you are getting almost two for one!! The only downside to unscrewing the bottom part and using the 2" body to provide a longer focal length, is that you lose the 20-ish mm of eye relief. I think that you can get little metal pieces to screw into this thing to have up to 4 different focal lengths with proper relief (I am assuming the part about yielding proper eye relief). But because it makes no mention of this, I don't actually know what length is converts to when you unscrew it, but it looks about around 17mm.The only con to this is that the rubber eye cup is too long. You wind up bumping the telescope around when you try to get the full field in view, although this doesn't really seem to be a big problem because you can just fold it back, however, this might let you eye get too close.The optics seem quality, in my telescope I see no unexpected distortions.All in all this is a fantastic buy if you figure you're getting a two for one deal here.
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