Tele Vue Optics: Tele Vue-85

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TV85: Galaxy Season from Palm Springs, CA (7/8/2025)
The "Realm of Galaxies" runs through the constellations Virgo and Coma Berenices that are high in northern Spring skies. This is the time to observe and image these beauties before the shorter nights of summer steals away the evening skies. Jeff Fishmam shares his galaxy photos made with the TV-85 and one-shot color camera.
Tele Vue-85: Imaging the Skies Over Queensland Australia! (8/27/2020)
The combination of Tele Vue-85 APO refractor and Tele Vue 0.8x Reducer/Flattener (TRF-2008) creates a potent, highly portable, flat/wide-field (480mm @ f/5.6) astro-imaging system. This blog is a gallery of Southern Hemisphere nebulae, by Vesselin Petkov, using this system.
Astro Sketching the Universe! (9/14/2019)
Pekka Rautajoki sketches the Sun, Moon, planets and the deep space sky with Tele Vue gear and reveals his thoughts on the Tele Vue-85 APO refractor and Ethos, Nagler, Nagler Planetary Zoom, and Panoptic eyepieces.

02 July 2019 Total Solar Eclipse Images (7/18/2019)
In Chile, two Tele Vue users, one from Indonesia and the other from Finland, independently setup their gear to record the event. We feature Wijaya Sukwanto's images taken with the Tele Vue-76 APO scope with Powermate image amplifiers and Pekka Rautajoki's sketches drawn with the TeleVue-85.

Night Vision in the UK: Seize the Night! (2/27/2019)
This blog contains a first-person account of using night-vision for astronomy. It includes must-be-seen images of deep-space objects created with a night-vision monocular through the Tele Vue-85 and other scopes.

Chris Owen: Tele Vue-85 Narrowband Imager (2/6/2019)
Amazing deep-sky images through the Tele Vue-85 made with Hα, OIII, and SII — plus some birding images.

Tele Vue-85: Portable, Powerful, Photo-Visual APO (11/14/2018)
This versatile scope takes on various tasks from Solar transits, birding, lunar eclipses, to deep-sky. How did it do? The images speak for themselves!
From Tom's Driveway: Tele Vue-NP127is & Tele Vue-85 Simultaneous Imaging! (9/12/2018)
Tom uses the NP127is and TV-85 simultaneously to produce spectacular deep-sky images. "I can take 20-to-30-minute sub-frames with dinner plate round stars all the way to the edges of the field-of-view", he tells us. See these images and learn Tom's dual-scope imaging technique on the blog.
Observing the Moon (2/21/2018)
Al Nagler's journey to the Moon with a Tele Vue-85 and Bino Vue.
Totality in Tellico Plains, TN with Tele Vue TV-85 (8/30/2017)
A fantastic cloud-free imaging session near the center-line of the Great American Eclipse in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains that abutted the Cherokee National Forest.
Imaging the Skies with the TV-85: Mike Broussard (7/12/17)
Mike tells us why he choose this scope: "My main reasons for choosing the TV-85 was seeing the great images taken by others using this scope and the reputation of Tele Vue as one of the best manufacturers of eyepieces and APO refractors in the world."