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I'm a bit worried about your widefield case, Stu. How can you sleep at night having that sequence along the top row 21mm, 31mm, 17mm, 13mm / Ethos, Nagler, Ethos, Ethos. Are you just trying to mess with our heads or are you part of some secret society where obsessive compulsive disorder is not just a mere fact of life? …and I just noticed that the Leica and Barlow aren't facing the same way! I feel quite faint just looking at it

Nice set, Shane. Do you get much use out of the 3-6mm zoom?

Are you using TapaTalk to connect to the forum? If so, when you are typing a message there should be a small button on the left that has a picture of a camera on it. Click on the camera and it will tell you what to do. If not, I don't know.

Rumbled ...

I picked up this lovely set of TV 8mm - 25mm Plossls on Ebay last week and added the 40mm. The light weight case is ideal and was bought from here. I intend to use these with my yet to be purchased travel scope... There just might be room in there for a 3-6mm Zoom and a Barlow or Powermate

I think that is part of it, but for me there is also a certain amount of pleasure taken from owning something that is beautifully designed, engineered and produced and that will last a lifetime. I admit to being lucky enough to be able to own the equipment that I do, and I do not doubt that there are cheaper alternatives that my inexperienced eye would be unable to criticise, but I trust the people here who comment on the finer details and have an ambition to one day have their skill and experience as an observer. That is why I want to buy top of the range gear - partly for the pleasure of owning something special and partly for the re-assurance that as I become better at this game I will have equipment that I can grow into.

Just checked the Televue EP calculator and the eye relief on the 55mm is 38mm - but I think the killer is the exit pupil, which is 5.5mm in my CPC, 9.5 in the dob and a whacking 11.5 in the small frac I have my eye on. That just isn't going to work so I will re-think the plan. Thanks for the hint

i miss her dearly. Not sure I will ever have another so special, although I have got my eye on a shapely little 55mm Plossl that could fill the void [emoji7]

I had been planning to buy one new one a month to complete the set and these were just too hard to resist, especially as I noticed there were a few watchers. Not sure I will be so lucky with the longer focal lengths, which seem to be like hen's teeth second hand. Once these arrive I will be selling an 11mm as I now have two

Just bought this lovely set on Ebay...

That one used to be in my case. They seem to be quite popular at the moment

I've decided to stick with this set for a while for my Dob and CPC so any money I spend now will go on my grab-n-go frac and a set of TV Plossls - I've just picked up the 11mm.

I hope not

It's worse than it looks - I cropped two more empty spaces out of the picture so that I can pretend they aren't there!

A couple of new arrivals - Ethos 13mm & Nagler T4 22mm…

I will try to do that Michael - if we ever see the sky again!

I've just looked back at this thread and found that I have gone from this... to this... ...in just over 4 months If my wife asks, it is all Alan Potts and BigMakStutov's fault - they tempted me into it

My latest brood... The Nagler 31mm is superb but I have to say I am mighty impressed with the Luminos 23mm - an excellent alternative way of getting 82º FOV at half the second hand price of a Nagler.

Ready to be added to my case when I get home

Upgrade complete (for now)