Tele Vue-102 f/8.6 APO Doublet

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Concept: At Tele Vue, we always try to provide good value in addition to great optical performance. With the Tele Vue-102 we offer the amateur a simpler, less expensive, 4" refractor which retains Tele Vue's core values; outstanding optical performance and superb mechanical quality.

The Tele Vue 102 is available with ivory tube and black anodized metal work and with brass tube as the Renaissance 102.

The new Tele Vue-102 is a 4-inch, 2-element f/8.6 APO air-spaced doublet, similar in aperture to the 4-element f/5.4 Tele Vue NP-101. The Tele Vue-102 achieves similar diffraction limited, high power viewing as it's 4" sibling, along with a wide 3 degree maximum visual field (compared to 4.9 degrees for the Tele Vue NP-101).

Like all refractors without a rear lens group (as built into the Tele Vue NP-101) a field flattener is needed for photography of star fields. However, a dedicated 0.8x reducer/flattener will be available, to permit great astrophotography at f/6.9 with the Tele Vue-102.

The Tele Vue-102 is offered as a package and as an O.T.A., since you may already own a 2" diagonal and adapter as well as an eyepiece collection and mounting rings. Instead we have made all of these items available separately. I hope you agree that the 4" Tele Vue-102 offers the high standard of performance and features of Tele Vue refractors along with a unique value. - Al Nagler

RENAISSANCE-102 - Solid brass, 4", f/8.6, APO refractor on walnut Gibralter mount.