Alan White

Dave I have the following do collection to date. Some good some reasonable and some are so so. 32mm TV Plossl 25mm Meade 4000 Plossl. Reasonable to good. 20mm TV Plossl. Love it to bits. 15mm Meade 4000 Plossl Japan Made. Good but not as good as 20mm TV. 9.5mm Meade 3000 Japan Made. Love it to bits. 6.7mm Meade 4000 Plossl. So so. I measure the EP set against the 20mm TV and 9.5 Meade as the benchmark. I am a working bloke, normal financial pulls so the price band I am in is where I will stay for some time. The 32mm to me was a lot of money to be honest.

Thank you folks for your input. I think the extension may be needed, but as you have said, makes it an expensive Plossl. As Rudd has shown, it may be black out rather than Kindey Beaning as I stated (you live and learn), thank you for that information Rudd. It was something that I was much looking forward to using, perhaps too much so and the bar was raised too high. The other TV 20mm I have is stunning so had set the bar height. Time or extension will tell.

I bought a new 32mm TV Plossl from Simon at Widescreen Centre a week or so ago; last week of the London Store, I paid £143. Anyway, finally a short first light tonight and I am dissapointed, had set my heart on it being great Such long eye relief it kidney beans on my 6" 150p Newtonian, I stuck in my 25mm Meade 4000 and although the clarity was better in the TV, I found it very easy to use. Big shame as my Mrs bought it for my 50th birthday, so doubly sad. Is this just too much for my scope, the EP or me. Your thoughts and advice please.

Just checked back in and it got interesting while I was gone! Thank you all for you varied input and opinions, thats what a forum is for is it not. I have to say at present have all plossl all Meade but two are Japanese build and shine. 9. 5 mm series 3000 is a peach and offers views of a quality of the 20mm TV. 15 mm series 4000 is fine but is not as immersive as the 9mm or 20mm. 25mm series 4000 is good but you don't feel like you have fallen into the view. Any little collection will be a slowly bought mixed bag as money allows as I have a daughter at uni and the bank of mum and dad is being worked hard! Again thank you for such enthusiastic input guys, appreciated.

Thanks Ben; more food for thought. As Gordon (Floater) said, Have to say the 20mm Televue is sharp to the edge and no noticeable coma. The wider FOV might be good on my AZ4 mount as it is in effect being used as a Dosonian.

Hi Ben I like the 50 degree viewm mainly because I started with Kelners many years ago and the narrower FOV is 'normal' in my mind. The sharpness in the Televue is right across the EP and I have a 750mm FL f5 Newtonian, which shows up EP performance good or bad. My friend runs a Hyperion and that's a nice EP, is the ES 24mm really better? Having not looked through one I do not know. In the end what FOV we like and how we perceive an EP performing is a very individual thing, just like choice of clothes, car, phone etc. can be.

Now if only that sounded as good as it reads; I could convince my wife to invest in a logterm savings plan.

I have recently bought a 20mm Televue Plossl EP used and just used it for the first time looking at the moon in the blue sky. What a pleasant surprise from my decent Meade 4000 Japan EP's the contrast and sharpness is a notable step up, very pleased. The problem is I now have itchy fingers wanting more decent EP's! It's a slippery slope this hobby. Is the 32mm Telvue Plossl as good as they say? I have a birthday coming up.

Good luck with the build Neil. Look forward to the pictures and commentary.