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That is a lovely collection Steve, and beautifully laid out too.

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Thanks Stu, i decided to lay them out by manufacturer as this seemed to give the best overall layout to the eye then spent a good while marking the small blocks out in dull felt pen before carefully lifting them out, end result is the eyepieces are a nice snug fit in each one. Very pleased with the end result myself.

Hi here is a link to DSO sketches http://www.deepskywatch.com/deepsky-guide.html

These are all sketches I have printed them off laminated and spiral bound them really handy I have done complete sets

These are absolutely excellent, these should remain a permanent part of the forum. Can it not be moved to its own thread and stickied up or something like that. Or maybe moved to the front of this thread and marked up?  HEADS UP ADMINS!!!

About time I updated my Eyepiece collection Photo, here goes:

Here is a closer view, sorry about quality but light is terrible here

The little white box is a reducer and the 9 is the Vixen SLV.

Actually 2nd thoughts its rubbish, where's your 12mm Delos   

These are my current eyepieces although I still need a few more to finish off. The majority get used with different scopes but there are a few that need passing on.

1st & 2nd cases are my widefield eyepieces and the 3rd case is my binoview pairs & ortho's.

bloomin hell my jaw dropped when I saw this lot, superb collection of glass mate. Right minds made up, you can't have too many eyepieces and i will buy me a new Vixen, thanks for the nudge 

you see i cant do that gavster, keep my premium ep's seperated,its like going to a pub to drink tea or something like that, just couldnt do it.

I would be worried that some of them might get it into thier heads that I dont like them anymore and start giving bad views, (yes mine do talk to me to you know) 

Thanks so much for this! For a while I wondered what might be wrong with my telescope. Now, you've confirmed that I actually saw the things I thought I saw even though they didn't look like the images that I used to try and recognize what I was looking for!

I believe if u look around you will dig out lots of more detailed discriptions of what you might see through your scope but none i have read cover such a range and depth in one post as per the OP's. I still remeber my disapointment of first light on Andromeda but part due to a better scope, part to better technique and big part due to better unddrstanding of the mechanics/physics, so basically evertything about what i am doing and viewing, my experience is a world away from that first light of this beautiful galaxy. Or simply with time ones experiences become more fullfilling.

Steve

Agree with charic, a 10mn barlowed or 5mm will be perfect for ur high end eyepiece. Look at the skywatcher planetary range or bst but i also think a 4mn will be over gunning it. Your 8 barlowed would cover the rare occasuon conditions allowed. You say you got good views of saturn with the 3.6mm but how much definition and contrast did you really get? Higher magnification often comes with a loss of definition, especially in scopes with smaller appertures. I found this out the hard way despite a lot of good advice. Anyway, charics advice stands good in my eyes for a 5mm or equivalent option. Steve (on holiday in Portugal :-) )

Just read this and I am very impresed with the write up plus other stuff I have read. Now I am trying not to allow myself to pursuade myself that I need a 9mm but so far I am loosing the arguement, hehe 

Me-think qualia was a poet of some standing in a previous life 

Ok so went to shop to buy a frac and mount and the service was brilliant. For a start off I was in shop for 2 hours, got 2 cuppas and ate a bowl full of chocs (rude not to)   Lee, who looked after me was excellent and even after I forgot my debit card we managed to sorted out a method of paying for it all.

Next the scope I bought came with a budget finder and after discussing options, we were able to upgrade it to a top notch finder (I will be reviewing this later). Its the illuminated type and was very well priced.

Today I phoned again asking for some advice and Peter this time went at great length to talk me through the website, what I was looking for etc, thanks again chaps.

sorrydont know what happened with the comet jacques picture, took that 3 months since, 5 second exposure using same PD1 and the mini dob 100p hand guided. I didnt count it as a DSO as it was only 53 million miles away at the time heheh 

ok here is my first real attempt where I actually have the first idea of what I am doing. Ok not brilliant but onwards and upwards, using a PD1 astrocam and my 12" dob fitted a 0.5 reducer this time.

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Thank you for your kind words, Mrsmith I'm so glad you stumbled across the post.

If a neighbour stumbles across my nocturnal pursuit and I happen to share a view with them of some night sky wonder, you can almost hear their brains crying out, "Is that it!" They step back, offer a pleasantry and away they scuttle and in a way, it's easy to appreciate why they find themselves disappointed. Stargazing is probably made of around 50% observing and 50% imagination. It is a slow and subtle process requiring patience and persistence and at its heart is the culmination of knowledge and skill. It is the knowledge and understanding contained within these spectacular objects of nature that furnaces imagination and wonder.

If we don't appreciate or understand the wonder about us, don't quite grasp that we are all riding together on a tiny spinning Earth hurtling about a "sun that is spinning in a whirlwind of a trillion stars, sealed in an envelope of mysterious dark matter" and that against all the possible odds, a tiny group of atoms have grouped together to create you and I, and here we are, together, at this exact moment with a tiny bit of glass gazing up at this immense wonder, then we are left with nothing, nothing but a dull feeling of 'is that it?' 

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without doubt one of the most profound statements made that didn't come from david attenborough,  you just made my weekend!

I see you have the Pentax 30mm Tinker. I looked at one of these but the exit pupil made me go for a 28mm EP instead. How do you find it, reviews are very good on the smaller ones?

I think you will find Ceres is a summer target though and unless you can get a good west aspect and find it just after sunset you may struggle

I sold my Axiom 31mm for several reasons. The views were excellent but it was heavy and the goto motors werent keen on it when low down, the exit pupil was a little large for my old eyes and its not brillliant with glasses although useable.

That said, its a cracking eyepiece, just BIG, haha

PS just realised I need to change my signature, hah!

I do not understand any of this. Too much maths - I was never any good.

But I need eye pieces, as I have lost my set (in a nice metal flight case) after a break.

Well, I say a break - I have yet to use my scope properly - have had it 4 years now (disgusting, I know)

I stored the eyepieces so safe, I have lost them.

I need eyepieces as I am attending Herstmonceux next weekend - no good turning up without lenses.

I am going to buy a very basic 4 pack of eyepieces - 4mm, 6mm, 12mm, 20mm.

And then I might buy a 10mm and a 25mm individually.

I have a skywatcher explorer 200P on an eq5 mount.

Sarah

Have you considered buying a zoom eyepiece rather than a basic set, it would probably serve you better

I refer to the beautiful little open cluster just off the bottom of Casseopia. 

The first time I saw it was through my dob and a highish mag, around 100x and the first thing I thought was wow, it looks like a giant bat!

I have since found out it has names of the OWL, Dragonfly or even ET. 

So what does anyone else thing it should be called, any of the above or something else

 

Maybe i should have made a poll, 

I'm cured of my eyepiece buying impulses. At least for now .

I am saving this post and will make sure it comes back to haunt you ;-)

Found the listing, saw this on Ebay the othr day and to me they look very simlar. Maybe your 2 are copies of these Laurie61

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=271565616163&ssPageName=ADME:X:eRTM:GB:1123

click on original listing link and scroll down for a bigger view, look identical!

what dya reckon

I think that the 2 unidentified plossl's are later versions of this but maybe someone else can verify this  http://www.astromart.com/classifieds/details.asp?classified_id=314549

i saw somewthing almost identical on ebay

And that's before we even get started on the EP collection compared to what's posted here. 

you havew some very nice EP's in that there signature of yours fella. Particularly keen on the pana 32mm and the x-cels are great ep's for the cost, nice...

hahaha, love this thread. I daren't post my case on here as some of you OCD case brigade lads will be having hissy fits.......

Oh go on then

The revelation astro 42mm was bought for scanning the skies after I had done the cutting out hence the bit of repair done under the harry glaterrer.

The gap is where my Delos 8mm sits and she is due to be returned to the fold very soon after being sent to America for repair and some RnR (My 2nd most used EP) The barlow will be removed once she returns as I use that on the 17.3mm Delos atm but its not the same.

The beast is an Axiom 31mm/82 degree heavyweight with my now most used SW UWA 22mm underneath. (She is vastly under rated IMO, its a cracking eyepiece for the money and is worth double what I paid)

I think the etx would be ok for planetary imaging with a webcam, loads of threads on here but it would be ok i think.

This link is the one I used when i modded one http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/131246-xbox-livecam-mod-cliff/