The Baader Planetarium Maxbright Binoviewer meets a stringent set of quality standards established by Baader Planetarium. Some highlights of the Baader Planetarium Binoviewer include:
- Full multi-coatings on all air-to-glass surfaces that improve illumination and contrast
- Laterally adjustable eyepiece holders
- Enhanced design with proprietary metal die castings with redesigned prism seats
We are highly impressed with the Baader Maxbright Binoviewer as it is a significant improvement over the typical entry level binoviewer. Below is a full list of features and specifications pertaining to this product:
Baader Planetarium Maxbright Telescope Binocular Viewer Features
- New proprietary Baader metal die-castings, featuring re-designed prism seats made to the same precision as the Mark V viewer.
- Laterally adjustable eyepiece holders (with diopter adjustment and multiple clamp screws). Unlike the Chinese clone viewers, the Maxbright eyepiece holders are collimatable. This is an essential element to being able to fully collimate all viewers for work at high magnifications. They can even be removed and replaced in the future with high precision Baader Clicklock adapters (future availability).
- Interocular separation range of 53mm - 74.5mm.
- Full Multi-coatings on all air-to-glass surfaces. The excellent multi-coatings of the Maxbright-Binocular deliver a very bright and contrasty image.
- 23mm diameter clear front aperture. Excellent illumination of all 1.25" eyepieces - even long focal length wide-field eyepieces. In our tests with a TeleVue 24mm Panoptic (68degree field) and the very fast Takahashi Sky 90 (f/5.6), there was a only a slight amount of vignetting (light cut-off) visible just inside the edge of the eyepiece field stop. When tested with a 21mm and 28mm Pentax XL, the field was brightly illuminated all the way to the very edge of the field stops.
- T-2 System Modularity. The rotating knurled front T-thread ring enables the Maxbright-Binocular to fit all existing telescope makes with the shortest possible path length possible. The Maxbright binocular viewer body only does not come with any nosepiece or corrector lens. Baader offers a 1.25" or 2" nosepiece to fit any telescope, but it may also be adapted to attach to a multitude of accessories and telescopes directly through the use of our Astro T-2 System. Through this system, the Maxbright may be directly close-coupled to just about any exotic thread; Vixen/Takahashi (M43x1, M36.4), Pentax (M43x0.75), Intes (M42x1), SCTs (2"x24tpi), AP (2.7"), Zeiss (M44), etc.
