Tele Vue 5.5 mm Nagler Type 7 Eyepiece
This exciting addition to the Tele Vue Nagler line is anticipated Summer 2025! Be sure to check back in for pricing and estimated availability as these details develop, and stay tuned for pre-orders to secure your spot for this incredible eyepiece!
Big Magnification, Large Field of View, High Quality
Take an up-close-and-personal visual spacewalk with an incredible eyepiece! Tele Vue's impeccable quality brings together long eye relief and immersive apparent FOV for the Type 7 Nagler line, transporting you to the stars above. Add high magnification excellence to your eyepiece repertoire with the Tele Vue 5.5 mm Nagler Type 7 Eyepiece!
With the Nagler Type 7 series Tele Vue set out to create what they call a "natural extension" of their incredible limited release—the Apollo 11 eyepiece. The result is a line of eyepieces with long eye relief and incredible full-field image quality, bringing stunning celestial views to those with and without eyeglasses! With 19 mm of eye relief you can comfortably enjoy views that are sharp, full of contrast, and well corrected across the entire image—and with 82° apparent FOV, there is a lot to enjoy. The 5.5 mm Nagler Type 7 Eyepiece brings this performance to a high magnification design, bringing you a spectacular close up view through your telescope. This eyepiece excellence sits in a high quality housing, and features an 1.25" & 2" barrel for compatibility with most diagonals on the market today. While the long eye relief makes this an attractive option for those with corrective lenses, for those who observe without glasses this eyepiece comes with an eye guard to help block stray light and correctly position your eye. With elegant performance like this, if you're looking to add a premium high power option to your toolkit the Tele Vue 5.5 mm Nagler Type 7 Eyepiece is sure to be the perfect pick!
An Impressive and Immersive Eyepiece
With an immersive apparent field of view that will take you on a virtual spacewalk through the skies above, eyeglass friendly eye relief, parafocal performance, and Tele Vue's superb quality, the Tele Vue 5.5 mm Nagler Type 7 Eyepiece is a premium piece of kit for your eyepiece library!
Spacewalk FOV
The Nagler eyepiece line has been
designed to provide a visual "spacewalk" like experience, by providing an
expansive apparent FOV. The Type 7 series is no exception, with this
eyepiece providing an 82° apparent FOV! This expansive field of view
gives your observations a more immersive feel, bringing the wonder of visual
astronomy to even more awe-inspiring levels. This is made possible by not
only providing a wide view,
but one that has full-field sharpness, excellent contrast, and distortion
correction!
High Power Focal Length
With an incredibly short 5.5
mm focal length, this eyepiece gives you a very close-up view of objects
through your scope! Take a visual walk across the surface of the Moon with
1500 mm focal length scopes, approach Jupiter with 2000 mm optics, and
observe the Hercules Globular Cluster up close with 1000 mm telescopes. All
this and much more are available to you in immersive and crisp detail
through the Tele Vue 5.5 mm Nagler Type 7 Eyepiece!
Long Eye Relief
The Nagler Type 7 series will be a
welcome sight to eyeglass users! With 19 mm of eye relief, using this
eyepiece is a comfortable proposition even if you need corrective
lenses—especially helpful for those with an astigmatism that may
struggle to get a crisp view without their glasses. An adjustable and
locking eye guard is included to help setting your head at the proper exit
pupil position if you do not wear glasses; additionally helping block stray
light that can degrade image contrast. These features combine to make an
eyepiece that will shine for most any user!
Easy Eyepiece Changes
This eyepiece series is
parafocal across the four models in this line, meaning that changing out
your Nagler Type 7 eyepieces for a new perspective won't require refocusing!
For Nagler Type 7 eyepieces with 1.25" barrels like this Tele Vue 5.5 mm
model, you will need to use the
2" to 1.25" Satin HiHat Adapter
(sold separately). This adapter can additionally be used with
almost all* other Tele Vue 1.25" eyepieces for a parafocal performance
with the Nagler 7 series, giving you a fluid eyepiece swapping experience in Tele Vue's excellent
visual equipment ecosystem!
* Tele Vue 40 mm Plossl 1.25" eyepieces excluded
Compatibility
The Tele Vue 5.5 mm Nagler Type 7
eyepiece can be used in just about any focuser or diagonal on the market
today thanks to its 2" and 1.25" compatibility! While its long eye relief
makes it a great candidate for those using corrective lenses to correct an
astigmatism, this eyepiece is compatible with the Tele Vue DIOPTRIX line for
a sharp, eyeglasses-free, astigmatism correction. If you're looking to bring
this eyepiece's awe-inspiring view to even more immersive heights, you're in
luck as this eyepiece also is compatible with bino-viewers. Finally, if
you're looking for a quick way to capture the night sky this eyepiece is
additionally compatible with the
Tele Vue FoneMate Smartphone to Eyepiece Adapter
which can bring your eyepiece's view to your smartphone camera!
Tele Vue Quality
With decades in making excellent and
well regarded eyepieces, it should come as no surprise that this addition to
the Nagler eyepiece line is one of the premier ways to experience the stars.
This eyepiece features premium optical coatings and internal baffling,
ensuring you can realize the potential of this advanced optical design. This
is housed in a superbly finished housing for a piece of astronomy that you
can admire even after daybreak!
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