Altair 30mm Binoviewers

Altair 30mm Binoviewers

The Altair wide-field binoviewer allows vignetting-free observations with almost all 1.25" eyepieces through oversized prisms.

  • Clear aperture 28 mm / prism diameter 30 mm
  • 1.25 connection on the telescope
  • Prism surface Lambda/8
  • Self-centering eyepiece connection for perfect fit of the eyepieces, also with safety groove
  • Built-in micro focuser for diopter compensation on each side
  • Short design with only 118.5 mm optical path - can be used with many refractors without compensating the optical path
  • Robust transport and storage case included in the scope of delivery
Manufacturer : Altair Astro
SKU : ALT-AABino
Price: 539.00 € incl tax 19% (Germany)
Estimated delivery time : 2-4 weeks
Product description
Altair 30mm Binoviewers

Altair Premium Binoviewers have oversized 30mm prisms, allowing a full 28mm clear aperture for maximum performance.

This makes it more viable for use with higher-end eyepieces like the APM24mm Ultraflat with 30mm field stop as well as eyepieces with smaller field stops of around 27mm, such as the Televue 24mm Panoptic, and Explore Scientific 24mm 68°. Altair Binoviewers have a 1.25" barrel diameter nose-piece to fit into your standard telescope diagonal mirror or prism diagonal. They take up 118.5mm optical path, therefore when used with a diagonal, will usually require a Barlow lens to create enough "in-focus". This applies to most telescopes.

While Barlow lenses serve to shorten the optical path to accommodate the binoviewers, other factors such as your the amount of inwards travel of your focuser, the light path length of you diagonal and the telescope design will also influence whether or not the binoviewers will come to focus on your system. SCT's or Schmidt Cassegrains may not always require a Barlow lens, because the mirror shift focusing range is quite large.

Since binoviewers are predominantly used for solar system observing, the use of Barlow lenses is an advantage, because it allows you to maintain the more generous eye-relief of longer focal length eyepieces, making the placement of your eyes less critical relative to the rear lenses. This enables binoviewer owners to still achive medium to higher powers quite comfortably.

Some Altair refractors have a "binoviewer friendly" design with a removable extension, which serves to shorten the distance between focuser and front lens, making bino-viewing without a Barlow possible too.

Quality and performance: Altair binoviewers are are individually collimated on an optical bench for best performance. Using two eyes for viewing the moon and planets gives a much more immersive experience than a single eyepiece, with an increase in visible detail which, although unquantifiable will always be better than a single eyepiece. Almost all users of binoviewers comment they can see "half again" as much detail with binoviewers than with a single eyepiece. BK7 glass is used. BK7 gives better performance with binoviewers than the usual BK4 used in binoculars.

Scope of delivery:
  • Bino

Products specifications
Connection to eyepiece1 1/4"
Connection to telescope1 1/4"
CoatingMulti-coated on every air-to-glass surface
Glastype prismBK7
Aperture30 mm
Weight700g
Length125mm
Width115mm
Thickness47mm
Optical Length118.5mm
surface accuracylambda/8

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