Meade Plossl 6mm (1.25")
by Meade

List Price: $60.00
Category: Digital Camera
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• 4-element Plossl lens
• High power
• Designed for use with Meade telescopes
• Useful in moon and planet observation
• For steady atmospheric conditions

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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Meade Plossl 6mm (1.25")

Customer Review: For lunar, planetary, and double star observing.
Summary: 5 Stars

Eyepieces with focal lengths shorter than 10mm are generally considered "high power" tools (the lower the focal length, the higher the power). Therefore, this one certainly qualifies as a high power eyepiece. Used in a scope with a focal length of 1000mm, this eyepiece will render 166 power (telescope f.l. divided by eyepiece f.l.). On a telescope of half that focal length, (500mm) a 6mm eyepiece will provide half that much power (83x). In most high power applications, a 6mm eyepiece is my personal weapon of choice.

High power eyepieces are great tools for "splitting" double stars, and for lunar and planetary observing. Viewing double stars at virtually any power can be extremely rewarding, since many of them exhibit thrilling combinations in their spectral colors, i.e.: - gold and blue; yellow and red; topaz and orange. On clear and still nights, the moon and planets are rendered in natural color as well, and high power is essential for their detailed study.

Meade's top-of-the-line eyepieces are generally considered among the finest available. Price-wise, this is one of several offered in their intermediate series. It is however, an ocular of excellent quality, and is extremely appropriate for the amateur astronomer on a budget. Comparatively speaking, this eyepiece will deliver a view equal in quality to some pricier models. It would take a very perceptive and critical eye to recognize the difference.

The PL 6mm is a nice component, exhibiting fairly high quality throughout. It lacks the fit and luster of Meade's top-of-the-line series, but plating and anodizing are well up to acceptable standards. It will yield high-quality images, and that's where the dominion of final analysis lies with any eyepiece.

You should be advised that if you wear eyeglasses to observe, a high power eyepiece may be difficult to use. Generally speaking, the higher the power, the closer you have to bring your eye to the lens. There are exceptions to this, but they are much more expensive. The cure for this "problem" is to use a medium-power eyepiece with a Barlow lens. A 2X Barlow doubles the power of any eyepiece, while maintaining the longer eye-relief originally associated with the eyepiece alone. Thus a 12mm eyepiece with a Barlow will yield the same power as a 6mm would, while affording you the longer eye relief of the 12mm.

With the majority of telescopes, (of common or average focal length) the Meade PL 6mm eyepiece will yield extremely pleasing views of lunar and planetary subjects and double star systems. It would make a fine addition to any observer's collection. I have never known customer satisfaction to be an issue with Meade eyepieces. Highly recommended.

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