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Brief session on xmas night, and first light with new 24mm, 68-degree Maxvicsion


kev100

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Hi and seasons to you all,

I was lucky enough to get an hour and a half out with the scope last night, and very excited I was too. My wife bought me a 24mm, 68 degree MaxVision for xmas, and unbelievably the skies were clear that same night. I have to say, I'm very pleased with the EP. Incredible clarity and contrast, pin sharp stars pretty much all the way to the edge, absolutely massive field of view. I compared the FOV with that of my 32mm Revelation plossl, which I'd always regarded as my 'low mag, wide field EP,' and the difference was incredible.

As I only had a little while, I toured some familiar targets:

M31, M33, Ms 36, 37 & 38. The Pleiades, Orion Neb and Almach. The star clusters looked amazing in the 24mm, and my 16mm MaxVision gave more mag and a hint of colour, too. The galaxies were fantastic, with definite spirals in M33, and a dark dust lane running down the left-hand side of Andromeda. Contrast and detail in the Orion neb was breathtaking! Almach was very bright and clear, but I had to drop in the 9mm plossl before I could detect any colour (it did look lovely then; steel blue and yellow/orange).

The two MaxVision EPs really do complement one another, and seem to be par focal, too! 

Final target for the session was NGC7331 and Stephan's Quintet. Found the former very easily in the 24mm (a pale, slightly elongated smudge). Bigger in the 16mm (with perhaps just a hint of a spiral in averted vision, but I couldn't be sure). No luck with Stephan's quintet, though. Again, I felt a few times that I had it in averted vision, but wasn't sure.

Although only out for just over an hour, and joined for a little while by my wife and kids, it was a lovely session, with some familiar targets and one new one to me (NGC7331).

Absolutely thrilled with the MV eyepieces, and would definitely recommend them.

Cheers,

Kev

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I have to say the MV 24 is my most used eyepiece for general viewing,excellent value for money,i also could see apart from green in the Orion neb i also was also te detect definate pinky hues as well with this eyepiece,the 16mm barlows excellently too.

Great report Kev.

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Hi Kev

I also have recently purchased the 16mm and 24mm Maxvision's and like yourself I have been very impressed with them, really improved my time with the telescope.

I am also contemplating either the 28mm or 34mm but am undecided with either or both :D .

Cheers

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Hello Paul, Phoobar,

Thanks for replying. I didn't get any colour in the Orion neb, but as I was a bit rushed, and hadn't brought a chair with me, I wasn't able to take my time to tease much out of the things I saw. Definite colour in Almach, as I mentioned, and there's a bright yellow star bang in the middle of M38 in Auriga, which stood out nicely.

I forgot to mention Jupiter in my post. Although still low in the sky by the time I packed up, was amazing in the 24 ... much bigger than I was expecting, and very clear and sharp. I'd have loved a bit longer at the eyepiece on this (with a chair to sit on, though).

I did try bar lowing the 16mm on Almach last night, but, on this particular occasion the 9mm plossl gave the better view.

I reckon I'm okay for eyepieces for a while; the next purchase will probably be a UHC filter (but that'll have to wait for a couple of months ...

Cheers,

Kev.

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Nice Chistmas present :smiley:  I got my first DSO nights for months too. Not bad best transparency, -10 degrees and very humid. The old M1 just barely visible, Got some easy open clusters like NGC 1647 and 1847 in Taurus, 2169 and 2175 in Orion, planetary nebular 1514 was bagged too after some efforts with UHC filter.

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I managed a few doubles as the seeing was better than average, and certainly better than it has been recently.

Had a good look at Jupiter too, which was showing quite a bit of detail and colour and (first time I can remember seeing it) a conjunction of two Jovian moons -Ganymede and Europa. 

Chris

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Nice results with the new glass, Kev, and the Christmas weather was not so shabby for trying out new presents! The MV24mm sounds great. Wish I'd brought my rig out here to Worcester as the skies are darker but the sky looked good in the bins.

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Congratulations, Kev. I'm very happy myself with my MV24. It has a wonderfully well-behaved exit pupil which makes it very comfortable to use, and its image is every bit as crisp and clear as you describe. Thank you for your first light report!

Phoobar, you might as well get both the 28 and the 34 mm. They're as good as the 24 mm and with 6 mm between them they are different enough in framing, magnification and exit pupil to justify having both. Also, I imagine that once the supply runs out, these eyepieces will be very easy to sell on the second hand market and for a good price too. 

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Hiya Kev, congratulations on the new bit of gear and great to hear you had yourself a nice session. Haven't had a chance to head out this Xmas :sad: Have come to see in-laws in the city and there hasn't really been the weather nor the opportunity to head out. Oh well  :grin: 

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Congratulations, Kev. I'm very happy myself with my MV24. It has a wonderfully well-behaved exit pupil which makes it very comfortable to use, and its image is every bit as crisp and clear as you describe. Thank you for your first light report!

Phoobar, you might as well get both the 28 and the 34 mm. 

And the 20mm Ruud ?

I think my next ep will be the ES 82 N2 6.7mm. Seeing Jupiter recently through the 16mm MV barlowed to 8mm has ignited my interest in more detail, I am getting this eyepiece fetish thing :evil: 

At the moment I can live with the 24mm for WFOV, hopefully they wont sell out for a bit.

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Optically, the 20mm is as good as the others and ergonomically it is fine too. The eye relief is excellent if you don't wear glasses. I use it with eye guard  raised  5mm. 


 


With my sunglasses on and the eyeguard down I can almost see the entire field stop of the 20mm. ​You can use these eyepieces naked. Removing the eye guard gives an extra 2mm eye relief and would definitely open up the entire afov for my sunglasses..


 


These are scaled eyepieces. The eye relief gets bigger with increasing focal lengths.  From 20 mm up I find them very comfortable.  For me, the 16mm feels a bit tight and the 40mm is too heavy.


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I was at the `Inlaws` over Xmas and noticed the sky was near perfect for viewing but alas I was involved in the festivities; I did manage to get out on Sunday 28th, but with now a 48% Moon! Still, I enjoyed M42 before it went behind a massive tree (see my signature!) Ngc 1647 in Taurus and a new one for me NGC 2301, a nice open cluster in Monoceros; also did the appropriately named `Christmas Tree cluster`, also in Monoceros.

Ms 36, 37 & 38 are superb aren`t they, some of my favourites; I`ll bet they were good in your MaxVision. :smiley:

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