alan potts

Derek, I see you have the new TeleVue eyepiece, the Talisker, it has a very interesting lens element arrangement with triples and doubles in combination. aLAN

I have never seen so many Peli cases, I have one I bought in Hull and you have more than the shop I got mine in. I am using Geoptik cases, not quite as good but less than half the price.

Deepspacehunter, It is funny but I like TV and Meade SWA as well, it must be to colours, The blue UWA's are not at all bad from the first run though I have seen a number of poor reports on the newer 14mm UWA that was out a couple of years back. I had the first one from about 2008 and that was a superb eyepiece, wish I had kept all of them in truth, but I would still have bought the TeleVue's, can't have too much of a good thing. alan

Derek, I like a man that is not know for half measures, sound like a cue to pop in for a single malt .

Derek, Well one thing is for sure no one could ever accuse of doing things by half, congratualtions on the new glass, my bet is you will like them. Alan

I use a series of cases from Geoptik which look and seem the same as Peli. I have one Peli with camera lenses in and this cost a lot of money, about 150 quid ten years ago. The Geoptik's are about a 1/3 of the price and for me worth ever Euro. For me with TeleVues at anything from 200-600 pounds a time its nice to know they are well protected. Alan

Nice report Shane and I fully understand why the BGO's exited, they must be hard work with a Dob, though I still think the 13mm E is a hard act to follow. I have never seen the early Naglers before so thanks for sharing. I would like to swap a few things but where I am once I buy something, in particualr scope, I'm stuck with it unless I give it away basically. Eyepieces I can at least sell in the UK at a fair cost to me for a courier service, the lesson for me here is to make sure I really want a item for keeps first. Alan

Helen, Err no! I will have a look ing the morning I am just off to bed. I have no reason not to have seen it, I had my eyes tested just before Christmas but I didn't see it, or should I say didn't look. Thanks anyway. Alan

After having a play about I managed to load CDC up with all sorts of stuff and it works really well, as I said before just a case of knowing which buttons to press. I stopped short of going down to stars of the 16th magnitude though just in case the computer exploded. Alan

Merlin, It did not require it for the LX, worked like a dream, prefer it to the Meade program which I have to say is in need of a face lift. Alan

Considering it costs nothing it is a very useful software program, with me it is just a case of not know which buttons to press. Looking at it if I am right I can use it with the AZ EQ 6 as well. Alan

Well thankyou for all your help, I managed it now. The trouble is I do not use these programs enough and I forget how to sometimes. Ten years ago I was very good on Photoshop as I used it most days, now it is easier to use I am lost on it. Alan.

You two are not just pretty faces . So I guess you have to do that with every comet that you wish to view, I thought they came up straight away as you input the data file, didn't realise you had to call them up. Now all I have to do is put it in the other laptops. Alan

I will try it but 2004? not 2014, Alan

No disrepect inteneded, but whenever someone tells me it's simple I never seem to get it right. I have used the loader to load an MPC file and a KML file and as far as I see I have done this and there is Nothing showing on the charts and I know where Lovejoy is. Any ideas apart from get someone that knows what his doing? Alan

I will try that but will it show the path for Lovejoy say, OK it is not hard to follow at the moment but?

I have more than a few laptops and many software programs on them but on my LX I have tended to use the Meade program. This however as many times as I have tried never seems to have comet data uploaded to it. I can connect in the obsey to the internet as well but I must do something wrong. My main use of the laptop is for startmaps and goto combined and whilst the computer is not new it is a very high spec Dell model made for professional use with the RS 232 port. I was thinking of giving Carte du Ciel a try which I have loaded, can someone either take the time to tell me how to up load data or is there a link showing how for software dimwits like me and I do mean dim. Alan.

Steve, Then we can tell you how much better 'A' is than 'B' and then your back to phase 1 .

James, Every word true, I have rescued mine but I don't know if it will survive for long.

The 26mm would be my only inclusion with what you already have but then I guess you know exactly what you want. Alan.

Tinker, It was always a tug of war between the TV Panoptic and the 40mm XW for wide field, in the end I couldn't get one either and that was 3 years back, I guess the other 3.5mm is just a bit too short for you. I always wish they had made a few more in the range especially at the short end of things. Great eyepieces and as John always say's, what would they have done if they set out to make a range of astonomical eyepieces .

Oh come on Tinker where is the 3.5mm and 40mm. The former is a superb eyepiece and I prefer it to my Delos but only just. Lovely set of eyepieces and rare to see so many Pentax's, many, like myself have one or two but that's almost a clean sweep.

Thanks for posting the link John. Did you see any CA at the edges? I am always careful about that aberation as it can be the scope. Alan

A stunning collection you have there, I have or have had most of the TeleVues but what is that liitle huddle in the centre of shot, not Zeiss and Supermono's is it? Alan