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    Lowest magnification barlow?

    That Kowa zoom looks impressive.....just read a 3 year old review on CN.
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    Lowest magnification barlow?

    This is true. What’s the AFOV at the lower end?
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    Lowest magnification barlow?

    I don’t own a zoom eyepiece, primary due to the lack of wide AFOV, but have several individual eyepieces ranging between 68 to 82 degrees of AFOV. On my 80mm spotter they cover magnifications of 20x 24x 34x 48x 54x 68x 96x 137x. 99% of the time I‘m using one of the four lower magnification...
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    Lowest magnification barlow?

    You’ll probably not like this but my suggestion, frankly, is to sell your TV zoom eyepiece and replace it with a couple of very short, wide field EP’s. TV eyepieces have high resale values so you wouldn’t be losing much. I know it’s inconvenient swapping out EP’s but you’ll appreciate the...
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    Lowest magnification barlow?

    If you’re trying to get much magnification from a spotting scope an astronomical refractor will be much more practical with that zoom eyepiece.
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