Tele Vue Ethos 100º & 110º Eyepieces
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Tele Vue Ethos 100º & 110º Eyepieces

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Model:  tv_ep_ethos_17mm
Part Number:  ETH-17.0

The Tele Vue philosophy (Ethos, if you will) has always been about inspiring "spacewalk" vistas. Now we bring you the world's first fully-corrected 100° astronomical eyepiece.

Tele Vue is known for its in-house eyepiece and telescope designs by Al Nagler; our latest eyepieces brings new meaning to the term "in-house." The concept for this eyepiece series was proposed by Tele Vue President David Nagler, with performance parameters giving it the fundamental characteristics (the ethos) of a Tele Vue eyepiece: high contrast, comfortable eye relief and full field sharpness. Control of astigmatism, field curvature, lateral color, angular magnification distortion correction, and low pupil sensitivity for daytime use were specified criteria.

Following Tele Vue's philosophy of pushing the state of the art, long-time Tele Vue employee and optical design protégé Paul Dellechiaie took up the challenge and designed the basic eyepiece form. Under Al's guidance, Paul tweaked his design to fulfill the original goals.

While sharpness is inherent to the optical design, contrast is maximized through the intelligent use of flat finished baffles and ultra low reflectance, high efficiency coatings tuned to the composition of each element.

Introduced at the 2007 Northeast Astronomy Forum, Tele Vue once again broadened the amateur astronomer's perspective on the universe with: 100° of pure Tele Vue quality. The field area of this new eyepiece is more than 50% larger than an 82° field. The Tele Vue Ethos is essentially multiple eyepieces, delivering the true field size of a longer focal length, narrower apparent field eyepiece with the benefits of higher power and darker sky background.

We invited NEAF attendees to take a look and see the universe the way we think it was meant to be experienced, with a field of view incredibly wide and sharp! We were very pleased indeed by the response and validation of our design goals.

EYEPIECE FEATURES

  • Wide, sharp 100º / 110º apparent field of view
  • Proprietary tuned full multi-coatings & high index glass
  • Blackened lens edges & Anti-reflective threads
  • Fold-down, rubber eyeguards & grip rings
  • Threaded for either 1.25" or 2" filters depending on model
  • Safety undercut in nosepiece barrel for extra locking security
  • 100% full field visual inspection on Tele Vue's own flat-field test instrument guarantees the performance of every Tele Vue eyepiece
  • Supplied with eyeguard and nosepiece cover

Eyepiece Field of View Simulator

Ethos-SX

With 110°, the Ethos-SX has 21% more AFOV area than the 100° Ethos design. This permits a nice 62% power increase from a 6mm Ethos, while retaining 68% of its TFOV. The 3.7mm actually has more TFOV than our 8mm Plössl, 6mm Radian, and 5mm Nagler Type-6!

3.7mm

In 1¼" mode, it is parfocal with the wide range of 1¼" Tele Vue Plössls, Panoptics, Radians, Naglers, Nagler Zooms, and 6mm and 8mm Ethos eyepieces. The screw-on 2" adapter (included) is designed to make it parfocal with 13mm and 10mm Ethos when they are used in their 2" modes

4.7mm

Al Nagler eagerly pushed Ethos designer Paul Dellechiaie to extend the new 3.7mm focal length to reach 110°, the same field size as the LEM Simulator optics Al designed 45-years ago to train NASA astronauts for lunar landings.

The new 4.7mm Ethos-SX, like its 3.7mm progenitor, is designed and crafted to combine its exceedingly wide field of view with all the contrast, color-rendition, distortion correction and center-to-edge sharpness needed to achieve that natural view.

Compared to a lower power eyepiece with the equivalent TFOV (similar field stop) such as an 11mm Plössl (9.1mm field stop), the greater power - for higher resolution, and smaller exit pupil (for a darker background to enhance contrast) reveals a deep sky experience "even better than you imagined".

The 4.7mm is a 1¼" format and is parfocal with the wide range of 1¼" Tele Vue eyepieces. 2" adapter included.

6mm

In 1¼" mode, if you use Tele Vue's "high-hat" 2"-1¼" adapter, it will be parfocal with Tele Vue's Plössls, Radians, Type 6 Naglers, Nagler Zooms, 1¼" Panoptics and 8mm ETHOS.

8mm

In 1¼" mode, if you use Tele Vue's "high-hat" 2"-1¼" adapter, it will be parfocal with Tele Vue's Plössls, Radians, Type 6 Naglers, Nagler Zooms, 1¼" Panoptics and 6mm ETHOS. Further, its light weight and small diameter makes the 8mm suitable for anyone using a binocular viewer. Another application is for spotting scope set-ups with the Tele Vue 60° 1¼" diagonal.

10mm

The 10mm is parfocal with the 13mm ETHOS.

Its 59mm rubber grip diameter makes this model usable in binocular viewers — for most people

13mm

Tele Vue have not specifically endorsed the 13mm Ethos for Bino-Vue use because of the large diameter barrel. Even so, they were advised by Mike Harvey at the Winter Star Party (February 2008) that only 1-person in 25 had interpupilary limits with the bino'd Ethos (63.5-mm for the initial production 13mm).

However, since many customers have been thrilled with the experience, Tele Vue have maximised the potential use by narrowing the barrel from 63.5-mm to 62-mm diameter for eyepieces delivered beginning mid-March 2008. While the difference is only 1.5-mm, (or 0.75-mm for pairing a first production unit with current production) Tele Vue decided to make this small change public, in case you want to give it a try.

17mm

The 17mm ETHOS is an ideal complement to the 31mm Nagler Type-5. They are parfocal (both have focus locations about 3/8" above shoulder) and the 31mm Nagler Type-5 has exactly twice the true field area.

21mm

The 21mm focal length completes the logical set of 21mm/13mm/8mm and nicely juxtaposes the 17mm/10mm/6mm combination. Each step within these two sets approaches a 3x field area gain. The 21mm's effective field stop diameter is 36.2mm, bringing its true field close to the 35mm Panoptic (38.7mm Field Stop diameter). Its true field is also larger than the 26mm Nagler with its 35mm effective field stop diameter. In an f/4 Dobsonian, the exit pupil is just 5.25mm using the 21mm Ethos instead of 8.75mm with a 35mm Panoptic, or 6.5mm with a 26mm Nagler.

Specifications

Model 3.7mm 4.7mm 6mm 8mm 10mm 13mm 17mm 21mm
Focal Length (mm) 3.7 4.7 6 8 10 13 17 21
Barrel Size (in.) 2" & 1¼" 2" & 1¼" 2" & 1¼" 2" & 1¼" 2" & 1¼" 2" & 1¼" 2" 2"
Apparent Field of View (deg.) 110 110 100 100 100 100 100 100
Eye Relief (mm) 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
Weight (lb / oz) 1.10 / 17.6 1.30 / 20.8 0.97 / 15.5 0.95 / 15.2 1.10 / 17.6 1.30 / 20.8 1.55 / 24.8 2.25 / 36.0
Field Stop (mm) 7.04 8.94 10.4 13.9 17.7 22.3 29.6 36.2

Customer reviews

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Tele Vue 13mm Ethos 100º
29 December 2021  | 

Having viewed through this EP on a colleagues rig my mind was set on owning and using one of the Ethos range.
I have recently got back into viewing the night sky despite my passion for the imaging side of this 'hobby'
After observing through other EPs in the other ranges and other brands the 13mm Ethos was the one
I am not disappointed in the item, the 100° FoV really is immersive with a crystal clear image up the field stop and an eye relief of about 15mm
there is a tiny hint of CA right at this boundary but it really is a small effect and to be honest when your eye is in the ideal position the field stop is just out of view
As the weather has been so bad at night for so long I have also undertaken terrestrial viewing with a couple of simple test thrown in - yes, still really good viewing
I cannot afford a set of the Ethos EPs but if you do get a chance to get one, I can recommend the 13mm Ethos - a lovely glass combination with my 120ED APO Pro

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