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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!

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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.

For me, the 22mm AT AF-70, (Mine was a Celestron Ultima LX after I sold my 22mm Astromania), was sharper across the 70 degree field over the 22mm Nag T4 even at the 70 degree mark. Without a CC, the 22mm Nag is very aberrated. Selling off any EP even if I don't have the FL at hand for a short period of time is no big deal to me. I'm really not that concerned about it because I only observe during new moon or close to it anyways. It looks like you have enough eyepiece to cover what you need even if you DID sell some off, lol. Most eyepieces I ever own at one given time is 5. The least is 3. I don't relish the thought of owning too many eyepieces at one given time. I can't see going out in the field with 20+ eyepieces at a time. LOL.

I could never understand why people buy eyepieces and use them knowing they can't take in the entire FOV. If that's the case for me, off it goes for sale. LOL. Newbs don't notice the things us astronomy veterans notice, which is probably a good thing. I remember back in 1985 when I used Criterion eyepieces on my 6" Criterion Dynascope and all I ever cared about was seeing things, lol. Sometimes ignorance can be bliss, lol. (for all of us.) The 22mm Nagler Type 4 isn't nearly as bad as the 12mm or the 17mm Type 4's. I've owned the 12mm 3 times and the third time owning it, I realized how much of a PITA it is. I'd never buy one again! lol. However, for me, the 22mm Nagler still showed field curvature even when I used a GSO coma corrector with it. I had it set up the right way with the distance at the right spot too. I changed it dozens of times to make sure it was and the FC just bothered me too much, so I sold that too. If I don't like a certain eyepiece, I never keep them. If I kept all of the ones I bought over the years, I'd probably own over 400 easy. LOL I now own 4 of them. 25mm X-Cel LX, 12.5mm Morpheus, 9mm Morpheus, and the 6.5mm Morpheus + two 2" barlows.

All of the Type 4 Naglers do this really bad. The 22mm is the least offender though. You can read anywhere of people saying to "set the eye guard at the correct height and it will not happen", but this is teetering at the expense of cutting off the FOV. Not "ALL" Televue eyepieces are a god send as most will attest to, lol.

That's a really good reference to have. I downloaded the pic for future reference. Excellent work. Thanks for posting this !!!

The Baader Morphs do not "kidney bean" like Type 4 Naglers do. You will experience "blackout" however, by getting too close to the lens. You just need to train your eye where to sit if "hovering", or if lacking in experience hovering, you can simply use the M-43 extender with the rubber eye guard up. I'm one who "hovers" above the lens and in that regard, the Morpheus are the most comfortable eyepieces I have ever used and owned.

LOL. This isn't astro gear. BIG difference. Quotes from different astro sites: "I own several barlows, but I never use them" Seriously? Then sell them. "I own moon filters, but I never use them" ....Pointless. Same as above. They sit and collect dust. Sell them then. *smh*

A better move would have been buying a good barlow lens to use with your Baader Morpheus for higher powers on planets or the moon. I own the 12.5mm, 9mm and 6.5mm Baader Morpheus eyepieces and I bought a 2" Alstar / Orion barlow for that very purpose. It gives me a 2.2x magnification boost for all of the Morphs and is excellent. Only $88 CDN dollars and worth every penny. You still get great eye relief by using the Morphs + the barlow, it makes using only three excellent EP's into six excellent EP's instead of just one, (your 4mm Antares W70 Series 2), which also only has 12.5mm of eye relief, and isn't anywhere near as good as the Morphs. I actually bought another 2" Alstar barlow and I screwed the lens to a 2" 35mm extension tube, (magnifies 1.85x) and now the three Morphs are essentually 9 high quality eyepieces !!! Not only that, all are 78 and 79 deg AFOV. WIN - WIN. I will never understand this comment. "I own XXX, but I never use it" ??? LOL. I've seen people mention this about filters as well They own several, but never use them. Pointless to own something, but never use it lol. Anyways, here's the magnifications I get, and it only takes a few seconds to grab one of the barlows and add it in, if needed. This is the same one below: A friend of mine owns a 10" Zambuto. We used my Alstar 2" Barlow and his Delos eyepieces on Saturn at 640x and on Jupiter at about 420x and the views were still super crisp, although we did bump the mag down a bit on both for even sharper views. https://www.amazon.ca/Astromania-High-quality-Telescope-Barlow-Telescopes/dp/B0140UAHM6/ref=sr_1_2?crid=36CF4689RZ97Z&keywords=2+inch+barlow&qid=1665580833&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIyLjI5IiwicXNhIjoiMi4xOSIsInFzcCI6IjEuOTIifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=2+inch+barlow%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-2 12.5mm Morpheus - 92x, 170x, 202x (78 deg afov) 9mm Morpheus - 133x, 246x, 292x (78 deg afov) 6.5mm Morpheus - 184x, 340x, 405x (79 deg afov) Just a suggestion....

About 5 friends, including myself tried the 31mm Luminos in my 10" dob. It had seriously bad eye placement issues and a huge amount of "edge of field brightening" which was very distracting. We all agreed that the person who owned it, (one of my observing buddies), got rid of it. He agreed and sold it the same week. The 30mm APM UFF is way better and recommended. https://www.apm-telescopes.net/en/apm-ultra-flat-field-30mm-eyepiece-70-fov

Have any pics of those? 🤔

The undercuts on the XW's are significantly thinner than most others and so far up on the barrels that I never found them to be a nuisance in compression rings. But then again, I used Antares twist lock adapters on the ones I had, which meant no undercut problem at all. 🥰 https://www.google.com/search?q=pentax+xw&client=firefox-b-d&sxsrf=ALiCzsbq-1WMEtKJS_zuUl3aJqsRadJ6vw:1662909467250&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjq6trAhI36AhVGpIkEHdtACysQ_AUoAnoECAIQBA&biw=1344&bih=689&dpr=1.25 No undercuts on the older Pentax XL's? I've never seen that before. 🤔 https://www.google.com/search?q=pentax+xl&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwi1k-zBhI36AhW6sXIEHddpCdoQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=pentax+xl&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIECAAQGDIECAAQGDIECAAQGDIECAAQGDIECAAQGDoECCMQJzoFCAAQgAQ6BggAEB4QCFCtDFjTDWDeDmgAcAB4AIABd4gBwwKSAQMxLjKYAQCgAQGqAQtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZ8ABAQ&sclient=img&ei=HfwdY_WQJrrjytMP19Ol0A0&bih=689&biw=1344&client=firefox-b-d