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Q: How do you clean a foggy or dirty eyepiece of a telescope?

299792458I'm wondering what the procedure would be to clean the eyepiece of a telescope when it looks foggy or there's dirt either on the outside or inside it. I can get rid of loose dirt with a camel hair brush or air. But how can I clear foggy eypieces? Or what should I do if somehow anything got into t...

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4 hours later…
5:28 AM
@uhoh I'm not after the rep, sometimes it helps to have any plausible answer to go "nah thats not it" and post their own.
I really don't think its likely to be condensation, but its a start.
 
 
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7:07 AM
@Criggie that reminds me of an eyepiece problem I had with my binoculars on a humid day. They're supposedly dry air or nitrogen sealed or something like that, but perhaps it was condensation on the eye-exposed surface seeded by contaimination.
I'm going to see if I can find a photo of it...
 
Possibly - humidiuty kills more stuff than you might think... worse near the tropics too, but anythging can get damp
 
I've been living in northern Taiwan for a while now and "amazed" is not the right word to describe my feelings towards what humidity does to things :-)
 

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