TheLookingGlass

It will be miles better than the 31mm Hyperion, or even the 36mm Hyperion. This thread is good, but it is getting wrecked by too much Bru-ha-ha.

Check out this review on the APM XWA eyepieces. https://astromart.com/reviews/eyepieces/show/apm-xwa-100-degree-eyepieces

I have that same blower bulb. Works a charm!

I use hand warmers, (the kind you shake to activate), with an elastic band on my eyepieces and 50mm RACI finder when it is dewy out. Works great!

Outstanding !!!

True for most, but I use the 21mm with a 14mm fine tuning ring and with the FTR installed it eliminates EOFB, some astig and the field is now fully illuminated. This is with a 10" Orion Intelliscope -- F/4.7, and the end result is very acceptable. The 17mm is pretty good as well. The rest are, meh. Cheers!

🤣

Just wondering , where is your review of this eyepiece?

I notice when viewing through the eyepieces without a filter in place that when I move my head slightly up, down, left and right that small "dark areas" appear. It is very subtle, but it is noticeable. Some other eyepieces I have owned in the past never exhibited this. When I add the filter to the threads on the bottom, this phenomenon is even more noticeable, and the exit pupil gets a bit harder to hold. If I put a hood over my head, or cup my hands around both eyes, it goes away. I have put the filter on the bottom of the coma corrector and just like you said, it goes away.

Excellent eyepiece. I did own two of those at different times. Really nice correction. Only thing weird was that the field went funky when using with filters. Some eyepieces with long eye relief show this, while the Morpheus work great with filters. I found the same with the 22mm Ultima LX. Great eyepiece with insanely good edge correction, but once a filter is used, it was hard to get a good view. I wonder why this happens with certain eyepieces? Strange.

Nice! it would have been cool if they did make a 2" Morpheus, but I think the glass would be huge in order for them to make one, if I am not mistaken? Still would be nice though. Just over a year ago, I switched from the Morpheus to the APM 100's. I bought the 20mm, 13mm, 9mm and 7mm APM's. Eye relief is really good on them considering that they are 100 deg eyepieces, but cannot be used with glasses, and there are times when I need glasses when reading Stellarium on my cell phone to look for things and the glasses on, glasses off gets tedious. The views in the APM 100's are truly majestic, but the Morpheus provides me with almost 80 degrees and long eye relief and I am able to use glasses with them if I need to at times. They are also much lighter in weight. I can also get away with using them without a coma corrector, and the views are still acceptable. The 20mm APM 100 and the 13mm APM 100 need a coma corrector, (in my 10" F/5), to be at their full potential, while the Baader Morpheus can be used w/o one. (The 12.5mm really does benefit from a coma corrector out of the three I own, but still acceptable without one). I tried a 31mm Hyperion about 8 years ago. I compared it to a 32mm Orion Q70 and it was no better correction-wise. The astigmatism was pretty bad in the 31mm Hyperion, so I shipped it right back to the store, lol. The brown truck goes both ways, lol. Some are more sensitive than others as far as astigmatism goes. It depends on the end user. That's excellent about your Bortle 1 skies! I've only ever seen that years ago when I was in Schreiber, Ontario when I was touring in a band, lol. I think I was about 19 LOL. I can only drive to Bortle 4 skies sometimes. Only thing good from my yard is planets or the moon. Cheerz!

My faves are the Baader Morpheus. Nice long eye relief, can use with glasses if needed. I find with glasses that the 6.5mm Morpheus is better with the eye guard removed. I just use cheap readers, so scratching them is of no concern, lol.

I've got dozens of O-rings. No smell from mine. I've been using O-rings to parfocalize my eyepieces for many years without any odours or problems.

My apologies. I should have generalized what I said as I did not mean to say "you". PS: Which Baader Morpheus do you own? And how are you liking yours? Also, that pic you have for your avatar, is that your skies? If so, you seem to have a great sky to view, which is really nice!!! Here's my Morpheus and my 25mm I just got the other day. Only reason I have adapters on mine is because I own about five 2 inch filters. Really liking the Morpheus !!! Hope your skies are good this weekend !!!! Cheerz!

That's entirely up to the observer. If you want to own 100 eyepieces, that's your choice. If you want to own 5, same thing. I choose not to. Nothing wrong with either one. I get more observing time in by owning less.