graham56

yes that's the right size, Iam making mine from spares in my bits and bobs box, here's my eyepiece made from 35mm bino ,s

yes it is good fun , i have just picked up 2, 7x 35 binos about to turn them into a eyepiece . my personnel eyepiece collection is there abouts complete (50) and yes acquiring . the lenses is easy, sourcing. eyepiece barrels isnt.

its similar to a 56mm a meade 56mm smothside plossl i once owned but with better eyeplacement , the other eye lens off the bins make good 1/1"4 eyepieces a lot better than entry level eyepieces supplied with entry level telescopes. and yes l have only tried it in my tak fs60c which it performed very well i have a lot off better telescopes to try it in soon will keep you posted.

more mods now added baader sky surfer 5 ,get close with red dot ,puts it in right angle finder.

yes it does work remarkably well its made with , 4 50mm objectives from 2 pairs off 10x 50 binoculars off ebay (£35) the casing was made by in my fab shop (sheet metal worker by trade), so it functions greats and looks good its even threaded for 2" filters

decided to swap my finder for a right angle 50mm one , the f50 sparrow hawk ,this is a fantastic finder / refractor its happy with 3/6 nag zoom (33-66 mag) or the other end 35 ultima (5.7-mag) the rectile eyepiece 23mm produces 8.69 mag 7deg field there is a in depth review on astromart under refractors ,f50 nano refractor.

yes it was done me, as well as the color to match the finder to the mewlon . the beauty off that finder it takes any 1" 1/4 eyepiece works great with a 24 pan. 30mm ultima , but i use it with 23mm rectile eyepiece off my stellarvue sparrow hawk

ed ting said it s one off the 5 scopes he regrets ,i love mine , my back love.s the right angle finder the finder handle now resides in the bit and bobs box and considering my mewlon is a keeper thats where it will stay

well i finally changed the finder on my tak mewlon, love the original, but didn't. like the cricked neck, was quite easy to do replaced with right angled 80mm finder

i had a go the red henry way 4 50mm achromats , super sharp to 95% off the field , produces 5 deg field in a tak fs60c

what would be nice is a up to date Burnam's celestial hand book with j2050 coordinates. produced in 3 volumes all at once now that would be something worth buying it hasn't being. updated since 1976

now they are less excecible think iam going to give up on the annals, 9 years to get 8 volumes, my patience has run out.i estimate another 20 years for the set ,no thanks

purchased mine from telescope express germany ,but remember you get charged vat and import duties about £75 ontop

wasn't quite sure. where to post this so where are astronomer's sourcing the annals' off the deep sky now ,flo are no longer being supplied , are you importing and if so what the cost and time

was 41 now 49 dont ask

i have just got one , balance is very inportant forget the slow mo,s without an extension, i have put flex,on much better,i am mating with a tak fs60c made in heaven ,on a vixen hal 130

41 trimmed a few

heres my 127 mak with mods

plus one for me I've got 2 for binoviewing

still got some naglers in my boxes type1 9mm, type1 7mm , type 2 20mm, type 4 17mm, type 5 31mm and a 3-6mm zoom all great eyepieces the 9mm super sharp

like you i have had 2 ethos eyepieces 10 and 17 mm and both 17 and 12mm es92, s never got on with them (the es due to the weight) ,funny i still have the televue 20mm type 2 eyepiece in my cases, al naglers masterpiece its just the 82 deg field i lke discontinued in1999, it was televues heaviest production eyepiece ever (it retailed at 545$ us then , like you i prefer the panoptics 68 deg field , just one missing out off the set the 41mm to lower power for my light poluted skys ,saying that got a 42 lvw also doubled up 19mm ahd 24 in the pans like you i like to see the field stop.

back to the post topic 22 panoptic followed by the 27 pan

its not the eyepices but where you view with them ,i was out couple nights ago looking at jupiter and saturn with a tak and 3 to6 nagler zoom ,the view was crap due to bad seeing, location stoke, the point i took a astrotech 66 plus 2 vixen plossls up the roque de los muchachos in la palma ,the view off the orion nebula m42 is still etched in my brain to this day, then you come back to the citys in england and clouds and light pollution and you wonder why we do this hobby. (because we love it )

after being into astronomy since i was 7 years old (looking at saturns rings through a Charles frank 4" reflector back in 1963 ) have looked through most eyepieces , could never get on with the 100 deg or 92 deg eyepieces , owned and sold them all , i now keep to 82 s and 68 s , all im saying is dont search for eyepiece nivarna it doesn't exist.

yes i use mine solely for Bino viewing ,super sharp field stop , moon monkey most people who have them tend to keep hold off them