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How is the Zeiss standing up to scrutiny ?

Very, very well Shaun. The sky is allowing big mag. The low power view is jaw dropping though and I must get the reducer figured out with the ZZ- it doesn't need much... I'm maximizing the views with it for sure,.

Damn blanket cloud here all day. I will catch that big orb asap

Nice one Gerry, not much happening here

It's a real buzz when the contrast kicks in :) Am expecting total cloud cover here for the weekend, no doubt because my Quark now has a Baader clicklock that I want to play with! Good luck everyone.

Excellent news Gerry :-) Is the field stop of the Zeiss a good match for the Quark ?

Yes, the largest for the Zeiss is about 19.5mm, the Quark 22mm or so. This eyepiece works very well for Ha, but more time is needed for in depth comparisons. The eyerelief it tighter than LZ it seems though, we'll see how it does with the reducer- preliminary results with it are good...

Well that is a very promising start :-)

Sexy new eyepiece....swit swooo....nice one Gerry

Is someone addicted to zooms ?

lol! I'm just following my EP mentor :)

Cracking skies! I can barely get over 50x most of time :-)

Nice one Gerry, still no observing for me even though the sun is shining brightly.

Your having quite a time with Jupiter at the moment young Gerry :-)

That's a right pain Gerry..... I do feel for you. the useless %$£%@@$

WTG Gerry, not had a chance so far this weekend

Nice one, Gerry, would love to see the new spots! Looks a sweet AR on SDO. No chance this morning, the clouds are crying right now.

Nice :-)

The Quark rocks in the SW ED100 and ED120 :D

Absolutely Luke :) I had the mag dialed in for a 3d, fiery liquid like view... the proms showed fine thread filaments twisting though and off them. I didn't know visual Ha could be so good actually...

Massive !

That's a lot of pages!

Visual with an eye towards imaging. A feature of the Quark is supposed to be minimal sweets spots, but this one shows it easily and lots. It does provide fantastic views in the on band sections. I used it for 5 hrs today on and off, I love Ha that's for sure.

It sounds like a great bit of kit. Hope you get the unit you know is out there :)

I just want one like everyone else has ...

SLVs are no reason to cry

That's the problem... I may cry if they outperform some of my other EP's lol!

LoL I don't think you will be disappointed with them Gerry.. Very good eyepieces

The VX10, well collimated and cooled. The excellent seeing allowed the Doc to excel. The color richness with this EP rivaled refractor views....

Oh yes I forgot you had the Doc.. You enjoying it ?

Immensely. Good on solar too, but its too hvy really.

I had limited time today but it was sweet! That's looking like one active AR.

Very good detail today, the seeing is getting better all the time. I cant get over the surface detail around the AR..... :)

Quark is my best buy ever! Have fun :)

Thanks Luke!

Its nice having both Gerry :-)

You will love it whatever you go for. Fancy a joint owned / time share on the new Lunt 230mm with a BF3400?? :) :)

Sure! I wonder about the shipping back and forth though... :) I like the idea of the B1200 DS

I wouldn't say seeing by me is very good, which is partly why I don't image planets. Quark and ED100 I don't find to be that demanding for visual, the only reason I use smaller for visual is for portability. For imaging, that's different and a 100mm would sometimes be pushing it at times, but visual in my experience is much more forgiving than a stacking program. Lunt 80 sounds brill too. Good luck deciding what next move to make.