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I have pondered a wider use of this very scope for the same reason. I look forward to your user reports. 🤞

It’s a great filter. Essential for Jupiter. Red dot leaps out of the eye piece and moon transit shadows look incredibly sharp. I am looking forward to using it on Mars which for the moment doesn’t touch my back garden till silly O’clock hours.

Set your alarm

Same. My 9mm nagler is great for DSO targets. Just got a 19mm pan to compliment the wider views and the star hopping hunt. Great eyepieces. Nice and compact on medium to high mag end, good for balancing and for a travel setup if you have one.

I’ve ordered previously. They are a good supplier. I’d buy from them again if I needed something that they sell.

I did something similar. Could believe the jump in price. Quick google proved not all retailers had raised the price. And my Christmas/birthday gift arrived early.

1mm exit pupil will be a great experience. 8-10mm is a good eyepiece, you won’t regret that purchase. Did you manage to snag it before the price hike?

Nice! I like how it’s still in its foam covers to preserve its purity. Kudos for upgrading your coffee table to a telescope table.

Hope so. Deliberated for so long. I watched a video on eyepieces by astrolavista on YouTube so many times last year to get my head around it all. I recommend the video, easier than reading perhaps, prefer to spend reading time drooling over unaffordable gear on retailer websites. Link below. The thing that swung it for me was that I recently purchased a used 9mm nagler for a good price. It yields a 1mm exit pupil, another sweet spot, that has greatly improved my hunt and appreciable viewing of deep sky objects. The ring nebula is an addictive target. The pan will supersede my 28mm LET skywatcher that yields 3mm exit pupil. At home in bortle 5 through the LET the sky was a grey background, more a problem in poor seeing or a bright moon. 2mm of the pan compensates these issues in theory and my limited viewing yesterday with the moon up seemed to back this theory up. I also considered a 17.5 Morpheus but the weight and size of the two teles are similar and as I understand it are both parafocal to one another, bonus for deep sky object hunting.

Postman yesterday brought a 19mm panoptic and a new to me astronomik UHC and a baader filter. Apologies to all for the thunderstorms since. The pan was one of a number of eyepieces I considered to get near the 2mm exit pupil sweet spot for my 100ED. Got the chance to test it out briefly tonight in a 30min break in clouds. Diamonds on velvet gloriousness. This is going to be an enjoyable eyepiece.

What eyepieces are you using? When I bought my 100ed I purchased a vixen 5mm eyepiece to give me a high mag view of Jupiter. I have since bought a 9mm eyepiece that gives far greater contrast in the presentation of Jupiter’s disc. This is a far greater viewing experience and whilst smaller is not so noticeable that it diminishes the experience. It is now my chosen eyepiece for planetary viewing. I have only recently seen the Great Red Spot when viewing from a bortle 3. Not seen it at my usual bortle 5 garden.

Nice. How did you mount the 50ed to the rings? I have the 100ed and need to move the finder further up to make it easier to search deep sky objects.

It does well with baader zoom. Good combo for the moon.

Nice. Rest up, hope you feel better soon.

I watched this wondering when it would sell. What scope is it going in? Be interested to read a report on first light. Funds permitting I am weighing one of these against a 35mm or 41 pan.

Welcome to the forum. Love the names to the scopes. I remember battlestar fondly.

Incredible! Knew it was a mistake to venture into this bit of the forum. Wallet demands I leave promptly.

This is wonderful great work.

This is a question I have had in my mind for sometime. Alternative scopes being an 80ed or a ST102/120 for dark sky viewing only. But more the successor to the star adventurer that is out of stock everywhere. Are there any alternative mounts?

Well this thread has had a flurry of activity. I hope you’re all proud of the clouds you brought along… 🤣

Yes I saw that too. Is that the one with no image attached? There have been a few items lately at a good price with no image. You never know, could be legit but always cautious of an ad with no image attached.

A solid scope. Think astrolavista has not long bought one and done a video on YouTube. A 9mm eyepiece will provide a good planetary view. A Barlow to extend this in times of good seeing is a good bet. alternatively a good zoom such as baader mk4 will offer convenience of a relatively wide field view to planetary viewing in a single eyepiece. It has limits in terms of field of view and presents a darker image than individual eyepieces. Swings and round a bouts. I bought a 100ed in November so similar to what you have just purchased, my most used eyepieces are a 28mm Kellner a 9mm, a 2x BST Barlow and a baader zoom and that covers everything for my early learning. fingers crossed for your cloud free first night.

Hi and welcome.

OP based on your feedback I would say a small refractor, something like the star traveller 80 or 102 by skywatcher. Chances are there are several variants by different companies as they are all made in the same factory. This will be enough to get you a good view of the planets. In terms of mount there are packages but do you have a tripod already as this would save money and allow funds to be allocated elsewhere.

Yes Saturn is glorious. You’re bitten now, say goodbye to any idea of savings. wait till you see your first nebula!