Uncle Rod's Astro Blog

The amateur astronomy eyepiece market just changed, thanks to William Optics. Their new UWAN eyepieces

 (http://www.buytelescopes.com/search.asp?go=1&adv=&q=uwan&s=) are so remarkably good that they spell the end of the days when “Chinese eyepieces” meant “cheap plossls.” 

I’ve just completed testing three examples of WO’s new UWAN (Ultra Wide Angle) 82-degree apparent field eyepiece line—the 28mm, the 16mm and the 7mm. What’s my initial reaction? Surprise. Astonishment.

A year or two ago I wrote an article for my Anacortes column about Chinese eyepieces wherein I predicted we would eventually see Chinese (Mainland or Taiwan) oculars that would challenge those giants in the eyepiece “field”: TeleVue, Meade, and Pentax. And that has indeed come to pass in the form of these UWANs. I just didn’t expect it to happen this soon.

You’ll get to read all about the UWANs in my upcoming review (next week or two), but for now I’ll just leave you with a comment from one of the observers who tried the 28mm at the recent Chiefland Spring Picnic (star party):

“Let’s get on Astromart and sell our Naglers before anybody else finds out about the UWANs.”

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• #1 Comment from skydive3328 
  6/4/06 4:42 PM | Permalink

  Can all Chinese made SCT's in sizes from 8" to ?? be far behind??