Stock photos provided by the manufacturers may not represent the actual item. Please verify this picture accurately reflects the product described by the title and description before you place your order.

TeleVue Visual-Imaging Paracorr Type-2

Be first to review this item and help others

Manufacturer: TeleVue
MPN: VIP-2010
SKU: VIP-2010
Last price was: $511.00
Availability:
Click here if you want to be notified as soon as we get this product in stock again.

Since developing the Paracorr (Parabola Corrector) in 1989, we’ve made many refinements to enhance its performance, for both visual use and imaging. By eliminating the effects of mirror-induced coma, “fast” scopes could be made as
aberration-free as “slow” scopes. We showed that f/4 scopes equipped with the Paracorr rivaled non-corrected f/8 scopes. Shorter, more compact Dobsonians with dramatically larger fields became much more practical. Indeed, at the 2009 WSP, Mike Lockwood took it a big step forward with his 20" f/3.0, “no ladder” Dob. With a scope that fast, the Paracorr was definitely required! Although reports of it working nicely were appreciated (see Sky & Tel article), we at Tele Vue knew that, just as the standard Paracorr was optimized for f/4.5, the new Paracorr must be optimized for f/3.0. Hey, it’s our “ethos”, after all! And, as with the Ethos eyepieces, our own Paul Dellechiaie played a major role in developing the Paracorr Type 2.

Scott Ewart and I are shepherding the mechanical and functional parts of this project, including a combination “drop-in” universal / visual-imaging model, which will be available from Tele Vue dealers. The optical section can be unscrewed from the tunable top for imaging applications using our array of imaging system components.

— Al Nagler