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Jun 26, 2024

SVBONY SV227 2" SHO 5nm Narrowband Filter Set for Deep Sky Imaging

good filter

Package met expectations. Looks cool, sorry to be so expensive, but cheaper than others. It remains to check in the work. Sulfur and hydrogen give out a red picture on the eye, greenish oxygen. The next goal is to buy a monochrome camera.

Becky Ramotowski

Jun 26, 2024

SVBONY 1.25" 66° Ultra Wide Eyepiece 6/9/15/20mm Fully Multi-Coated

Great eyepiece for the money!

This review is for the gold rimmed 20mm eyepieces. I've been looking through telescopes for a very long time and this eyepiece gives you a lot of bang for the buck! I bought two to use in my large binoculars and they have not disappointment me at all. The eye relief is very nice and I wear glasses. They are bright and clear and easy to look through. I did not measure the FOV, but it is wide and comfortable. I had originally tried the 9mm red rimmed ones, but the eye relief was not good for me so I returned them. I think the Gold rimmed ones are the way to go! The Gold rimmed ones seated perfectly and securely in my binoculars with no wobble whatsoever. I am 100% confident they will stay locked in the eyepiece holders of my binos which are APM 70-90's. They work great. I rated these with five stars because overall they are worth this rating. The only reason of concern would be that there is a small bit of aberration at the very edges. This is really negligible, but worth noting if you are looking for edge to edge perfection. You won't regret your purchase if you go with the Gold rimmed ones! i am very happy and plan to buy the 15mm ones next.

DangDang

Jun 26, 2024

Svbony 1.25" Eyepiece 62° Aspheric Lens 4/10/23mm Telescope HD

Crispy, Good quality, budget, eyepieces, wide angl

I was shocked by how crisp the view I got from these eyepieces are when I first them in (one by one). I fully agree with previous comments that these eyepieces are decent and much much better than H20 (20mm) & SR4 (4mm) eyepieces I got together with the purchase of telescope. 1) The build quality is not bad. Better than what I expect. The 23mm one is huge at hand and 10mm one is actually smaller than 4mm one. I would say 3/5 2) The optical quality is very good. The view is crystal clear and no apparent distortion. For 4mm one, the view is actually very crisp except for darker background. 4/5 3) The wide angle view is indeed with what it claimed. Viewing from 23mm even gives me a feeling like watching stars through a spaceship windows... 3/5 4) The eye relief is not very long but not bad. For 23mm, I can easily look through it when I wear eyeglass. Looking through 4mm is a little bit of harder to watch through with glasses but much better than my SR4, which is simply not possible. 2.5/5 5) The cost for those three pieces is low. $12 each. 5/5 Overall, I would like to see that these eyepieces are well built, crispy clear and having wide angle view as advertised. In my opinion, if your budget is only about $50 and still want 3 decent eyepieces , this item is one ultimate budget choice.

Roland

Jun 26, 2024

SA401 20-60x85 APO Spotting Scope SA402 Hydraulic Gimbal Tripod

All-round spottingscope

I'm dead set for SA401 though, I picked it because it is an all rounder, and the zoom is just the right amount with Apochromatic lens, I think it will help with the far end of the zoom with CA.

machine

Jun 26, 2024

SVBONY SV202 8x32 ED Binoculars with Bak4 Prism Waterproof for Birding

High quality binoculars

I bought the SV202 10×50，it has no chromatic aberration. Or blue/green halos around bright objects.Light weight and easy to hand hole at least for several minutes.

neil

Jun 26, 2024

Flat Field ED Binoculars SA205 8x42 | Svbony

Easy to operate and good visibility

The metal focus wheel is deeply knurled and is easy to engage with. It rotates very smoothly with no free play in either direction. 1.5 revolutions anticlockwise brings you from one end of its focus travel to the other. It’s highly responsive, requiring only a light touch to dial up the best views.

Frank

Jun 26, 2024

Svbony SA401 25-75X100 APO Spotting Scope & SA205 ED Binoculars Kit

Great for bird watching

I love using it to birdwatch in open fields and wetlands.Price, lens lightness, definition and sharpness, durability are the main factors I consider when choosing a Spotting Scope.

KB Tucson

Jun 27, 2024

Svbony 1.25" 12.5mm Illuminated Reticle Eyepiece Plossl Crosshair Kit

Great product once you figure it out!

This is a terrific product once you figure out how to assemble and operate it without instructions. You will get it with 3 small watch/hearing-aid style batteries. Screw apart the illuminator in the middle. The batteries go into the half with the clear plastic tube that has a small round battery contact inside. The batteries go button side down, flat side up, into the tube. Stack all 3 batteries the same way, then screw the other half of the illuminator back on. You should be able to see the red light come on at the end of the illuminator when you click the switch knob on and turn it all the way bright. Screw the illuminator into the hole in the side of the eyepiece. Turn off the illuminator light and look through the eyepiece in normal room or day light and see the four black crosshairs. Most likely they will be very blurred. The ring on top of the eyepiece is for focusing the cross-hairs, so turn it as many turns as needed to get the two double cross hairs into sharp focus, and you're done. When using it at night through your scope, adjust the illuminator brightness as needed, depending on how bright your target is. On "first light" with this eyepiece, I achieved the best alignment that I've ever experienced with my Alt-Az mount.

Thomas Blose

Jun 27, 2024

Svbony 1.25" Eyepiece 62° Aspheric Lens 4/10/23mm Telescope HD

Very good for how inexpensive it is.

I liked it ALOT. I actually reordered it because I lost the one I had. It's good quality. And I like the 62 degree field of view on it. I used it to photograph Venus last night. And it was clear. In my Orion xt6 this eyepiece provides 300x magnification. It's a very good budget eyepiece.

Thomas Blose

Jun 27, 2024

Svbony 1.25" Eyepiece 62° Aspheric Lens 4/10/23mm Telescope HD

Very good for how inexpensive it is.

I liked it ALOT. I actually reordered it because I lost the one I had. It's good quality. And I like the 62 degree field of view on it. I used it to photograph Venus last night. And it was clear. In my Orion xt6 this eyepiece provides 300x magnification. It's a very good budget eyepiece.

N.

Jun 27, 2024

Svbony SV905C 1.23MP Type-C 1.25" Guide Camera for Astronomy Guiding

Nice simple guide camera that you can also use for

I really like that this little guide camera has built-in USB-C. That makes it much easier to get a live feed through the camera when I don't want to fire up a session of PHD or TheSky (or if I'm actively using them for guiding). The ST4 auto-guide port works great and it was immediately recognized by my Meade mount. This camera comes with a couple of tube extensions and a nice travel-stop ring so that once you get your focus, you can take the camera out to look directly through the telescope and then quickly return it to the same focus depth.

Herb H

Jun 27, 2024

Svbony SV209 1.0x Flattener for SV550 80F6 M63x1 Connection Black

Works Very Well !

Well made reducer, works exceedingly well on my SVbony refractors. I have both the 80ED and the 122 APO, each with it's own SVbony 0.8x reducer.

SeaLint

Jun 27, 2024

SV115 OIII Filter 2 inch 18nm Reducing Light Polution

wow!

I went from wondering if there was really an owl nebula there to being able to clearly define the nebula straight on in sub par skies. When using averted vision, I could occasionally make out the "eyes" in my 10" dob. Filter offers substantial improvement for cost.

Dbrozov

Jun 27, 2024

1.25inch 7mm to 21mm 57°-40° Zoom Eyepiece | SVBONY SV135

Easy for beginners and intermediate users alike

I had this when I started out with visual astronomy and recently purchased this for my daughter for her new telescope. It makes things so unbelievably easy for her age to just “plug and play”. I highly recommend if you want an easy viewing experience for yourself or others.

Josh Freed

Jun 27, 2024

SVBONY SV197 1.25" Cheshire Collimating Eyepiece for Newtonian

Works great for calibrating your telescope.

My telescope was out of calibration, so bought this to try to get a clearer picture. This made a big difference in my images through my telescope. Makes adjusting the mirrors a much easier task. A must have for your telescope.

e.p.

Jun 27, 2024

SVBONY SV225 Alt-Azimuth Telescope Mount Adjustable for Visual Set

Well built

It's solid. The adjustment between the azimuth and the upright is a hexagon shape within the casting so when bolted down the interface is very rigid. The fine adjusts work as expected. Very pleased.

Jeff

Jun 27, 2024

APO refractor Telescope Triplet SV550 80 | Svbony

Great

Pro build quality, similar to William Optics.. I have an older 90 Megrez, both very nice scopes. I enjoy viewing, no astro-photography as of yet.. but I've seen very nice pics from this 80mm triplet online & read good reviews. I ordered the package mid-Feb w the OTA/tube-rings, soft case, 6x30mm finder/bracket & the 1.25" mirror diagonal w red anodized sides. The dew shield fits snug & moves free w no slop. Focuser is 10:1 ratio heavy duty, well built & smooth. The finder shoe/dovetail bracket may moved from one side to another 10 or 2 clock position.. also has sub-positions to fix it on either side w machined grooves on the housing. The paint, fit & finish are all superb, no flaws. The optics I tested on 1 good night- Jupiter, the Orion nebula & lastly the moon. I could detect no false color on any object at any time except a slight blue haze before it cooled down outside.. 44deg. Very sharp optics, I used multiple power EP's & a barlow in later. Diffraction rings looked sharp inside of focus, a bit fuzzy outside.. read this could be slight spherical aberration. The details on Jupiter were impressive.. the moons, belts & red-spot neat to see. Overall I'd recommend this little triplet to anyone looking for portability & quality. I mounted it on an AstroTech Voyager alt/az mount I bought years ago.. enjoyable to use in tandem. I'm testing a few other Svbony products soon- relatively newer business since 2018, 7th anniversary - I've been around the hobby for about 30yrs. JB

Aubrey

Jun 27, 2024

SV550 80 APO for Prime Focus Photography - Connected to M48 Camera Ring

SVBony is breaking the “Cheap product” stigma with

Like most people likely reading this review, I was intrigued by how an 80mm APO triplet could be going for 50-75% less than all the others. I wondered if it was just bad manufacturing or if it was bad image or if there was some other hidden reason why it was so much cheaper. Still, I bit the bullet and got it with the thought that I could just return it if it was really that bad. Spoiler: it wasn't bad. In fact, it's much better than I could have predicted. 80mm f/6. for 480mm of focal length. Get that paired with the 1x field flattener and you get true, flattened 480mm images. When I first got it, I had my back spacing between my camera and the flattener off by ~8mm unknowingly, so the first images I got from it had me ready to claim to the world that I had found the flaw that caused it to be so much cheaper. The corners were oblong and not very good quality. After learning that I was wrong and putting the right spacers in, all that went away and the images I was able to capture had me shaking my head in disbelief. They are clear from corner to corner and the colors all look great.

William H.Laing, Jr.

Jul 05, 2024

SVBONY Plossl Metal FMC Eyepieces 25mm 1.25inch

See planets clearly and with a big picture.

I was amazed at all I had been missing by using all the other small aperture lenses I had been using. I was able to find planets and stars much easier than ever. Then I could put in a higher magnification lens and stay on target. This lens is very high quality and the eye cup is what I need to keep out errant light. I have other lenses that don't have the eye cup and I could tell a big difference in use of this lens. I wish I had a better telescope so this lens could be put to better use.

Ray M.

Jul 11, 2024

ED Doublet Refractor Telescope for Astrophotography SV503 102 | Svbony

GREAT VALUE !

Great scope for Astrophotography beginners. It is well constructed and made solid. It's compact. Easy to breakdown, pack it up and move around. However, I only had once chance to use it since received. Mostly cloudy nights, not good for observations. During the one night used, it performed great with my onboard planetary software, PHD2, Sharpcap and CDC. I was able to capture the M42 briefly as a test run. It turned out well for the first time. This is a great scope considering the cost. I was looking for something that wouldn't break the bank. I'm totally satified with it. I went further installing the ZWO EAF auto focuser. It works great and perfect match for the scope, easy to install. The ZWO ASI533 mc pro camera is compatible with the scope. Perfect match. I highly recommend this scope for beginners, like me!