Re: Review of TMB optical Monocentric eyepieces

From: Edward (reply_at_thegropup.thx)
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:27:04 GMT

"Tom Trusock" <ttrusock@yahoo.com> wrote in message

> I should probably add -
>
> I tested them in a variety of scopes, both fast and slow. Two of the
> faster scopes were a 15" f5 newt (with and without parcorr) and a
> Genesis SDF (f5.4). IIRC, the field curvature was quite noticable in
> both.
>
> Tom T.

IIRC, TMB cites field curvature as the one abberation expected in the
design.

Ed T.

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