Brasspoodle

My Televues speak to me constantly: "put away your books, don't learn that new piece of music, neglect your family. LOOK THROUGH US. LOOK. LOOOOOK!!!!" Spooky buggers.... :-)

For me it is as much about the eye relief with the Delos, as well as the feeling of being immersed in the view thanks to the large lenses that facilitate the eye relief. I love the Pentax XW for the same reason. I was a bit late to the Vixen LVW party but they are also considered to be in the same league and cheaper.

There certainly is some comfort in knowing you have some of the better eyepieces going around. Kind of takes one aspect out of the equation when trying to see objects better. If something is not visible it's not the eyepieces fault! I had an intreresting conversation in another forum where I was looking for eyepieces to go with my Short Tube Achromat. Here the advice was that the Pentax XW wasn't ideal as it does show up slightly more of the chromatic abberations inherent in the scope. The suggestion was to explore older designs (Orthos and Plössls) or more vintage eyepieces (Swarowski) that were made more with achromatic views in mind (presumable before the Apos became much more affordable and poplar or something to do with microscopes and/or spotting scopes). The Baader Classic Ortho was one affordable suggestion so have a 10mm coming to compliment the 6mm I already have.

I wonder if there is also a predominance of large fast Newtonians that go with these TVs? This is partly the reason for my TVs and couple of Pentaxs, although eye relief is one of my likes. In an undriven Dob FoV also matters to me: less nudging and averted/peripheral vision seems to work better as the eye moves around the wide FoV. If that wider FoV is also really well corrected I feel I have a better chance of picking up those faint fuzzies. For me ER often trumps the hyper wide 100° experience and dark skies coupled with good observation technique trumps that again. Some amazing eyepiece cases here. I'm also enjoying the updates to see how these collections evolve.

A result of various adventures. Mostly geared towards the 12" Dob but use the lower focal lengths and the BCO in the ST120 Achromat.