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Meade 07174-02 20mm Super Plossl Series 4000

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The Meade Series 4000 Super Plössls are an improvment over the 3000 series Plössls. The 9.7mm is used for high power observing on most telescopes. This eyepiece offers a magnification of 129x on an ETX90 or 206x on a 2000mm focal length telescope like the LX90. At high magnifications one requires a steady atmosphere, or else the image appears blurry due to bad "seeing". But with steady skies, this eyepiece produces stunning views of the planets.

This is the one that gets used the most, along with the Meade 32mm Super Plossl. These 2 EPs plus a good 2x barlow is about all you need.

This Meade eyepice is of excellent build quality. It offers very good resolution of the planets, moon, starclusters, planetary nebulae, and double stars.

The Meade Series 4000 Super Plössls are an improvment over the 3000 series Plössls. The 12.4mm is used for medium-high power observing on most telescopes. This eyepiece offers a magnification of 101x on an ETX90 or 161x on a 2000mm focal length telescope like the LX90.

I buy too many products from Amazon and have little time to review most of them, but I am pretty excited about this eyepiece.
It is the sharpest and brightest optical piece I ever owned, and I get great view with wide field that makes it easy to observe anything. Obviously the magnification is not great but I think this makes it brighter, and generally it is just a joy to have this eyepiece.

This is a nice eyepiece.
I wish Meade would put the field stop on the piece.
Remember that magnification is secondary to light gathering capability.
I have an ETX80 and with a 3x Barlow this is a little too much mag.

The Meade Series 4000 Super Plössls are an improvment over the 3000 series Plössls. The 20mm is used for medium power observing on most telescopes. This eyepiece offers a magnification of 63x on an ETX90 or 100x on a 2000mm focal length telescope like the LX90.

I bought this eyepeice hoping for some better magnification than my current eyepeice. I did my math wrong and this did just the opposite. So initially I was a little upset. However, once I realized just how useful this eyepiece was it is now one of my favorites.
I have an Orion XT-8. This eyepiece cannot be inserted completely into the focuser as it will not focus if you do. Luckily the adapter sleeve is very long on this eyepiece and you can pull it out about 1/2" before tightening the set screw. With it pulled out about 1/2" you can get great focus and an AMAZINGLY clear and wide field of view. This eyepeice is great for observing constellations and galaxies.

The view is breathtaking.

The Meade Series 4000 Super Plössls are an improvment over the 3000 series Plössls. The 26mm is the standard eyepiece supplied with most Meade telescopes. This eyepiece offers a magnification of 48x on an ETX90 or 77x on a 2000mm focal length telescope like the LX90.

The Meade Series 4000 Super Plössls are an improvment over the 3000 series Plössls. The 32mm is used for low power observing on most telescopes. This eyepiece offers a magnification of 39x on an ETX90 or 63x on a 2000mm focal length telescope like the LX90.