saarmason

I wish you many wonderful hours at the Telementor 2 eyepieces!   Truly a robust, perfectly engineered double star observing platform!  I have been enjoying my T2 for over three years now and it is a wonderful Lunar observing and double star splitter platform.  Jupiter and Saturn are stunning at higher powers also - during good seeing conditions.  I especially enjoy using the Zeiss eyepiece turret which provides wonderful upright viewing with it's amici system.  The .965 Zeiss Jena Orthos and Huygens are well suited for this longer focal length 62mm refractor and I have a 1.25 inch adapter fitted to the larger eyepiece threaded hole which I installed my trusty TV 22mm Panoptic.  Such a wonderful, simple observing system in both alt az (shown in pic) and GEM position.  I was fortunate, recently, and found an original 40mm Zeiss finder scope assembly from two sources (one in the USA and the other in Europe) which mounts on the back just before the turret.  That addition is what makes finding doubles so much a easier.  The tough part was trying to find them in those gun sights built-into the OTA.  That "old school" sighting system was not comfortable to use at night.  I attached a photo of the rear of my TV with turret fully locked and loaded.  I didn't have a pic including the Zeiss finder scope, but this shows how well designed the turret system is with the Panoptic installed.  Can't wait to view the environs of Sagittarius in the South from the south shore of Long Island, NY, in the weeks ahead with this great "school scope".  Clear skies to all!

Very nice solar viewing platform!  Best of luck with it.