The Houdini 12 prototypes we received a few weeks ago have been successfully validated. It's a beautiful eyepiece that packs a lot of goodies into a compact body.
It features full coma correction for Newtonians with an 86° flat and distortion-free field of view and a comfortable 19 mm eye relief.
Its 51 mm diameter body allows for comfortable use in binoviewers, so we tried it in a linear binoviewer. It worked like a charm. It was very easy to see the full 86 degrees with both eyes, and the field was completely sharp. The 18.0 mm field stop of the eyepiece is a perfect match for the 17.4 mm specified for the binoviewer.
The first production run has started and will be delivered in July 2025.