Tele Vue Universal Paracorr

An optical chain is as good as its weakest link. With the development of 82 degree Nagler eyepieces, Tele Vue offers the largest, flattest and best corrected visual fields in the industry. Combine the Nagler revolution, Dobsonian revolution and Paracorr for the ideal mating for spectacular wide and sharp "spacewalk" observing.

Coma makes stars look like blurry comets whose tails point out radially from the center of the field. The faster your scope's speed, the worse the effect. All parabolic mirrors used in Newtonian reflecting telescopes are limited in field sharpness due to coma. Even a perfectly made 13" f/4.5 parabola has only about 0.1 degree diffraction limited field.

Previous attempts to correct for coma have been limited in usefulness. Some correctors were designed mainly for astrophotography. Dedicated coma correcting eyepieces were another approach. However, these were limited to 50 degree apparent fields and would orphan your existing eyepiece collection.

Paracorr is a universal corrector that tightens and intensifies starimages on all f-ratios from f/3.5 to f/8 without adding any false color or spherical aberration! You no longer have to constantly shift a Dobsonian to keep objects centered for sharp viewing. Using a Tele Vue eyepiece, put M-13 at the edge of the field and enjoy resolving its beauty as it drifts across your view.

Paracorr is recommended for use with all Tele Vue eyepieces because our Plossls, Wide Fields, Panoptics, and Naglers achieve higher levels of aberration correction than competitive models. However, Paracorr is also compatible with other eyepiece makes.

The Paracorr can be used with both 2" and 1 1/4" eyepieces, as well as with your 35mm camera body. For visual use, slip Paracorr into your focuser like a Barlow lens, and your eyepiece into Paracorr. 1 1/4" eyepieces will make use of Paracorr's special low profile 1 1/4" reducing adapter. Paracorr is threaded for 2" filters.

Mount your 35mm SLR to Paracorr, and the quality of full frame photos will be spectacular since star image sizes on film can be less than .001" over the full frame for an f/4.5 mirror. Edge-of-field sharpness is further enhanced since Paracorr also acts as a field-flattener. Try Paracorr on your "DobNewt." We think you'll agree that the revolution is complete.

The PLU-1106 accepts all existing adapters and extension tubes currently available from the Imaging System accessory list. Choice of accessories is based upon what camera the customer owns. The goal is to maintain the 56mm distance from the PLU-1106 to the CCD chip or film plane. For a standard DSLR and t-ring, the customer only needs to add the TRG-1072 Imaging System t-ring adapter.