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Old 03-14-2006
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Pentax XW 10

Had a chance to test out a new eyepiece of mine tonight.

This thing is huge! I was kinda surprised by how big it is. It's about 125mm (sorry, the only measuring tool I have close by is a metric scale [ruler]) tall, extended or 110mm tall, retracted. The body diameter is around 55mm.

There was a barely noticeable green tinge around the edge of the moon. Contrast on the moon looked good (although now probably isn't the best time to test that. Full moon - no shadows).

Saturn looked pretty much the same as through my 9mm Burgess/TMB.

It seemed like I could see more of M42 than with my other eyepieces. I don't really know the reason for that.

I didn't really notice anything bad about it, but I was just looking at the stuff I normally look at so maybe I didn't push it hard enough.

I'm not very good at writing reviews, and I don't really know all of the technical stuff, but if you have some specific question about it I'll try to answer it.
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