Explore Scientific, LLC has reached an agreement to become the exclusive distributor throughout the Americas of Vixen optical products. This follows the recent closing...
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UPDATE: We have a winner! Congratulations to Eugène Daviau for winning the Vixen Handy Eye spotting scope. Be sure to follow us to to...
Note: For definitions of basic eyepiece characteristics mentioned below, see Ed Ting’s A Beginner’s Guide to Telescope Eyepieces. Once you look through eyepieces with...
Sized between the popular 4-inch and less common 5-inch refractors, the Vixen Optics ED115S ED doublet refractor is an f/7.7 instrument that uses FPL-53...
Plus: Wide field of view; extends limiting magnitude; steady image; pocket-sized Minus: Lens caps are easy to lose; image quality blurs at the edges...
When it’s mated with a good quality apochromatic triplet, does a carbon fiber telescope tube give you any advantages over a standard aluminum one?...
Like its little brother, the Vixen Optics VMC200L, the VMC260L (MSRP: $4,899) utilizes the field Maksutov-Cassegrainian design that employs a small sub-diameter correcting lens...