Baader 1.25" & 2" Morpheus 76° Wide-Field Eyepiece - 12.5mm # 2954212

I bought the 17.5mm Baader Planetarium Morpheus to replace a 17mm Televue Nagler Series 4 that was lost in a move of my household. Prior to this, I purchased a set of Meade and Orion Plossls and, later, a set of Baader Plateriam Hyperions, so I can compare the Morpheus with a 18mm Meade 4000 series Plossl and a 17mm Hyperion.The Morpheus is one of the finest eyepieces I've laid eyes on. The Meade Plossl throws up a nice image with okay eye relief, but the Morpheus is sharper still with basically equivalent contrast and a much wider apparent field of view. Though ibdearly loved my 17mm Nagler, I suspect it would prove no better than the Morpheus, and I'd challenge even the most experienced observer to find a EP that really, honestly beats it. You can get equivalent performance for at a wider apparent FOV, e.g., Televue Delos, but if an intermediate--but still very wide--AFOV will work for you, then the Morpheus is very very tough to beat: sharp images to the edge stop, sharp edge stop, great contrast even with objects with very different brightness or effective areas, no ghosting that I can detect even with very bright objects, and no coma at all in my f/6 scope.I plan to invest in a collection of Morpheus EPs. Good for Baader Planetarium for providing such excellent performance at such a competitive price.

I love this eyepiece! I have 2 achromatic refractors. One, a Meade 120mm and the "Frankenstar", a Celestron 150mm. I just received this not long ago and have been able to view on 3 nights in east-of-the-Mississippi summer clear nights. The Morpheus IS everything others have said. I put the 6.5mm up against my Tele vue Delos 6.0mm and on each night preferred the Morpheus. Light weight and very easy to look through. Nothing funny happens and enjoyable color. Comes to focus better than the Delos. PREMIUM glass! IMO, better than Tele vue. BTW, the Morpheus 4.5mm is a beautiful view also. Worth the money and risk. Do not let the light weight fool you - "form follows function''. It is beautiful in that respect. Happy viewing!!

Eyepiece provides awesome view of objects. Long eye-relief is great. excellent mid-range magnification with a good price range. Comes with everything one might need for either viewing or projection astro-photography.

Just got a barlow. Works awesome! Using on my 8" dob.

I bought the 17.5mm, which is probably the most popular in this line. In my 8" newt, it frames the moon perfectly.The first thing to bear in mind is this is a relatively wide-field eyepiece with plenty of eye-relief, suitable for those who require eyeglasses to correct for astigmatism. While the Dioptrx is a nice solution for this, it requires constant readjustment when changing elevation on newtonians.There is some color and distortion present, but it is not objectionable. The problem here is the dreaded "kidney-beaning", which is significant (both with my eyes at ~6.5mm dilated pupil size and my son @ over 7mm) and can make viewing taxing for extended periods. This may be less of an issue with other focal lengths.In this price-range, the only competitor in an eyeglass-friendly design is the DeLite, which gives up some FOV and "spacewalk" feel, but seems to have much less sensitivity to eye placement.Overall this is a good piece of glass for the money, allowing eyeglass wearers the ability to see the full field at once, but be prepared to deal with blackouts/kidney-beaning. I bought this through Agena here on Amazon, and as usual it was packed nicely and on time. Clear skies.

I installed this lens in my Kowa 883 sporrting scope using the astro-adapter from Kowa. This gave me a magnification of about 125X. Looking at the landscape of the full Moon is breathtaking. I also used it to get a final glimpse of the recent comet. Using it on land is iffy because of atmospheric conditions, but the night sky...

High quality high value eyepiece I’ve used in my C8 and 17.5 Dobsonian

Great picture! A touch tricky to hold image without blackouts with maxbright binoviewer but worth it. Prefer edmund scientific 28mm for bino use though as 3D effect is more pronounced, with very high light transmission. Badder continues to offer high quality optics for reasonable cost and this 17.5 Morpheus is a keeper. Thanks Agena Astro!

Di grande qualità e soddisfazione.