alan potts

Very nice shot, saw it the other night for the first time, evenings have been clouding up around 8pm many times this month. Sadly can't get my scope on it for the obsey roof.

Alan

A stunning shot, then when you consider it is taken with just over a meter and this isn't exactly M31 size, even better than stunning. Great capture.

Alan 

Beautiful capture and as you say rarely done, I've never seen it before. Must find out where it is.

Alan

Lovely capture and info Gav, always top draw from you!!

Alan

Lovely, better than my last effort with a Zwo 071 and decent scope, though I did only do a fraction of you capture. The colours have come out very well, if I ever get another clear sky ( been rotten this summer) I will have to add to my data.

Alan

Nice images and nice report, I am sure some will find it very useful, do like Trevor and his backyard, I have learnt a lot from him.

Alan

5 minutes ago, maw lod qan said:

So, when Neowise made it around the sun, being visible in the mornings, we had an unusual opposite weather pattern. 

The winds came in off the Gulf, giving us morning clouds and showers.

Now, when it goes to being an early evening sight, our weather goes back to normal with Easterly winds, thunderstorms and heavy rain just before sunset. It takes till almost midnight for the clouds to clear!

If this doesn't change, I'll only have viewed it once and that was with binos!

I wish I had a clue to what I did to someone in a previous life.

It is fairly horrible for me here in Bulgaria, last year at this time I was on Clear day 17 for June, this June I have had 1, and I didn't know of the comet back on the 3rd.

Alan

22 hours ago, markse68 said:

wasn’t the XO range astro specific? they went to great trouble to minimise internal reflections in those I think

I really don't know about that, I have never had my hands on one, though I have seen people on site talk highly of them.

Alan

4 hours ago, John said:

I use the 17.3 and 14 Delos with the 10 thru 3.5mm XW's to make a 1.25 inch set (plus the 24 Panoptic at the lowest power end). The two longest FL Delos reach focus a tiny bit further in then the XW's but close enough. The other Delos, as with the 24 Pan and the Nagler zooms, about 8mm further out.

I don't mind focus tweaking at lower magnifications but I like to minimize it at high powers if possible.

The 22mm T4 Nagler was my first "big" Tele Vue and I really liked it

 

 

 

 

 

Mine was the 20mm, another fine chunk of glass. I had the 14mm XW a long time ago but actually preferred the Meade 14mm Mk 1 UWA, just to put the cat among the pigeons. I have never tried the 30mm and 40mm XW but for me they really shone at 10mm and below, possible the best 70 degree eyepiece ever to hit the market. And you an I have said many a time, what could Pentax have done if they set out to design an astronomical eyepiece.

Alan

We have rather gone away from the point of the thread, which was insulting me I think, but while we are at it I've had all the T4 range and I feel the 22mm is best, I was disappointed with the 12mm, I'm a little surprised they have not dropped the range by now. To touch on Michael's point on the 14mm Delos I think if I recall the 8mm was similar with focus, I had the full range once Doc bought most of them from me after I spent months trying to see differences between the Delos and the Ethos range, stuck with the latter.

Alan

2 hours ago, michael.h.f.wilkinson said:

I just reread the whole review, and it reminded me that

a) I now have a 6" F/5 Schmidt-Newtonian

b) A 3.5 mm EP would make sense for that focal length and focal ratio

c) I have the XW5, 7 and 10 (with Delos 6 and 8 with parfocalizer rings "intercallated" in the series)

d) I have nice piece of space in my EP case, just begging for a 3.5 mm EP.

Oh dear.

It's a fine eyepiece but being a TeleVue snob, I have the Delos, not seen light for a long time as AP seems to take up most of my time, when I have a clear sky, been awful of late, better now. Hope you can understand my reply as I clearly can't write, punctuate or spell.

Alan

4 hours ago, Louis D said:

Perhaps we could get Wikipedia writers to post a plot synopsis for @alan potts's reports/reviews like they do for movies and books for folks who want only the executive summary and not the experience?  Have you asked J. K. Rowling if she could post a condensed version of her novels as well?  I'm sure we'd all appreciate it since many of us don't have the spare time to read 600 page books, and having a third party write that synopsis just isn't the same as having the original writer do it.

@Dippy Please do not read my reports/reviews either as they tend to be very lengthy and in depth as well; and as a Texan, I don't take well to being told I'm long winded in my story telling.

I am touched that you consider me worthy, I bashed out quite a lot of reviews a few years back when I had contact with the Dealer in Sofia and often borrowed eyepieces, even though I had about 35 at peak and often wrote stuff when I was changing to Televue and still had Meade and other makes.

And for the other person, I am most certainly not changing anything, many have complemented me on my style and humour in writing and whilst I am not gifted as a writer it reads fine to me and I put a lot of effort into all of these though accept they are not perfect.

Alan

The amount of rain we have had the last few weeks I dare say my CEM 60 is going rusty,

Alan

A lovely image as I have come to expect from you, 7 hours on a globular is living up to your name, I do 90mins and think I gave done well, maybe why your images make mine look very second rate.

Alan

I had both the Mk 1 and 2 for a while when the Mk2 came out, I only noticed a little difference when using Ethos eyepieces which I imagine were a pipe-dream when the Mk 1 was launched, I do feel the Mk 2 improves stability all round though and is generally the better paracorr but at near on 500 quid, it should be.

Alan

 I feel it will just be a case of getting use to it seems a huge outlay to buy another dome, they don't exactly come free with Cornflakes. I would try and live with it Darryl.

Alan 

Great image, well done.

Alan

I think it came out very nice, it would be nice to have a clear sky, 6 weeks, terrible here.

Alan

A very nice image, 42mins, a mere flash in the plan for you. Wish I could do something, weather is terrible out here, over 5 weeks now without a decent sky.

Alan

Very nice shots of all there Martin, considering the quality of the M13 I am a little surprised the propeller did not come out more obvious.

Alan

That always was a favourite of yours now even with the more exotic glass added to your collection it's nice to know it still gets out. Getting out in any shape would be nice for me at the moment, weather has been awful for 5 weeks, and more to come. Antares is a tricky one, condition are paramount, I have split it with my M/N 190mm but not smaller, the 18 inch handles it most times at about x120 or so.

Alan

That very nice indeed Robin, my half baked effort with nowhere near as much data at the right angle looked like a snail.

Alan

Lots on good things one can say about it though nice detail coming through, I am sure someone will help with the other issues, I have had more than my fair share.

Alan

Lovely image, I look at my OSC image and you would not think it was the same object.

Alan

A truly stunning image there, many congratulations.

Alan