A simple eyepiece consisting of two separate planoconvex lenses, used chiefly in refracting telescopes of long focal length.
Example sentencesExamples
- This is a variation on the Huygens eyepiece, and has a two piece achromatised eye lens.
- These are better than Huygens eyepieces, but not by much.
- A few minutes of adjusting the tripod and selecting from my wide assortment of Huygens eyepieces, I had the projection system set up.
- The binocular or optional trinocular viewing head is equipped with several Huygens eyepieces and can be rotated to any position and secured with a lock screw.
- The Ramsden eyepiece is essentially a Huygens eyepiece with the bottom lens element reversed.