bingevader

Mine is a mere P9! The Mrs has a P10 though and the children have some iPhone iterations that to me cost silly money and aren't even the latest (9s and 10s, apparently )!

Morning all! Any suggestions on snapping Comet Neowise with a smart phone? I ended up with a small green fuzz ball! I am using a phone mount , so it is stable. Just wondering about magnification and phone settings. Ta

Hope you don't mind me asking, but did you have to adjust or use any other setting on your phone? Whilst trying and failing to take a picture of Comet Neowise, I also snapped one of Saturn. It was clearly overexposed and appeared as a rugby ball!

The 7mm OVL Nirvana-ES UWA-82º Ultrawide Eyepiece is also very good indeed. Couldn't resist getting the 150mm dob out to have a look at Jupiter and Saturn whilst comet spotting last night! Not great seeing, but the 7mm gave just over 100x in this 'scope. 4 moons and 2 faint bands on Jupiter and a very distinctive Saturn with rings.

If you are thinking of a 2x barlow, then I'm not sure it would be the best investment with the eye pieces you have. The 20 mm and 25mm with a 2x barlow would be too close in magnification to the 10 mm without and the 10mm with a 2x barlow would be good only on the moon most of the time. As Jetstream is hinting at, your next move depends on how steady your views are. I have a 6mm and from semi-rural skies and when the conditions are good it gives splendid views of the planets at 200x. However, I can't say I am able to use it every time and less so atm, with Jupiter and Saturn still being low in the sky. An 8 mm or possibly a 7 mm might be a better place to start.

Yes, please don't hack it to shreds before it has flowered as seems to be the norm around here! These pristine, sculpted, architectural wonders that never get the chance to flower! The bees love it.

I'm glad that Steve has added the caveat, because I, personally, think we need to be careful here! A comparison has been made, and rightly so, between different EPs, but with considerably different prices! If the Nagler and the APM weren't the best, we really would be needing to ask why. However, that is not then to say, as Steve has rightly pointed out, that the others are to be avoided, especially if your pockets aren't that deep.

A 4mm and the barlow would be at the theoretical limit of the 'scope. Added to which 200x is pushing it in the UK (if you are here!). But there are 5s around, the BST Starguider for one! Or the Celestron X-Cel LX.

Or a 5mm EP and your 2x barlow would give you a magnification of 160x, which should definitely show you some detail.

What John said. But if they work for you, then of course that's great!

Wow! That's a very large 'scope. It's also quite fast at f4.5. I think you would need to spend a bit if you want decent results with wide field EPs. The 68° and 82° ES EPs are definitely over £100 each. The Baader Morpheus (you wouldn't want the Hyperions in your 'scope) too. I have two of the Nirvanas which I think are great, but I don't know how they'd fare at f4.5. For (just over) your £100, there are the Vixen SLV EPs which get very decent reviews and seem to do well in faster 'scopes. Failing that, you can pick up decent plossls that would work very well, but with a narrower field of view.

If it stays, there will be trouble. And If it goes it will be double. So, come on and let us know! Should it stay or should it go? This indecision's buggin' me! If you don't want it, set it free! Exactly whom it's supposed to be? Don't you know which 'scope even fit me? Come on and let us know Should it cool it or should it blow?

There was a completely harmless Radio 4 series called Curious Under The Stars, which I thoroughly enjoyed even though it had nothing to do with astronomy! I think the U needs to be Universal!

Welcome! When things have eased off a bit, you'll have to arrange some star parties!

And the Pi is made in Bridgend.

Hi, I have the same spec' 'scope as you, and you can see the range of eyepieces I have in my sig'. I barlow (2x) to get the highest magnifications possible, but this is only ever on the moon. As John has said, in the UK, the 6mm is about as good as it gets on the planets. I've rarely used the 5mm on the planets and often drop back to the 7mm or 8mm when conditions are less favourable (like now!). My 6mm WO SPL is smashing and I've no complaints what so ever, in my 'scope, of the OVL Nirvana 82° eyepieces.

No qualms here either. Delighted to be able to see the Veil Nebula with the 8" dob. Couldn't see it without the filter! Mine wasn't second hand either, so paid the whole 60 odd quid, or what ever it was then.

I got lucky with my ES UHC then! Hopefully the same will be true of the O-lll, when I get one, because it's only ever going to be one of the inexpensive options.

I'd be interested in the results. Will be looking to get an O-lll at some point in the future. Would be the ES or the Optolong, but noticed the shift in the ES too!

And before anyone starts! No, it's not like looking through a 4mm plossl! Nice 'scope though.

Not true sat Steve. We only bought the 28" TV because they'd stopped making anything smaller!

If it is a shallow box, it has probably got a filter in it.

That's interesting, only used the 8mm BST and thought it was very good, but never compared it to my X-Cel LX. However, having said that, for the 82°, if the Nirvana 16mm is as good a the 4mm and 7mm, I'd go with that.

Why not indeed!

You can probably find it elsewhere.