HOW TO Protect your eyepieces

Clean and organise your oculars to keep them in tip-top condition

All your optical equipment deserves to be maintained and handled carefully so that it performs at its best. But your poor eyepieces take the brunt of abuse, as they are exposed to a natural source of unwanted contaminants and risk – you! Just handling them deposits fingerprints and grease on the body of the eyepiece and it is all too easy to accidently leave a fingerprint on the optics themselves. Simply placing your eye in position will transfer tiny amounts of grease onto the lens, as well as fragments of eye lashes, dry skin and traces of cosmetics. Dust, pollen and other contaminants will also collect on the optical surfaces. All of this is bad news for the antireflection coatings on the lens surface and ultimately the quality of the…

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The Astronomer's Yearbook (Digital) - 1 Issue, Astronomer's Yearbook 2021

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