Zeta Reticulan

There was on mine. I replaced the original with the new 'foldable' Baader eyecup. I folded the rubber and it detached from the ring, which had a lot of grease in the threaded metal ring part where it threads into the eyepiece itself. It isn't glued as far as I can see. I spent a lot of time cleaning this grease off the eyepiece. After this incident I decided to use it unfolded. It works fine. As long as I don't pull the rubber off the metal ring.

These are reasonably priced. I have the 3x. I'm strictly visual as well. Admittedly it has an undercut. I haven't had any problems with extraction or insertion though. For a 3x amplifier I find it relatively light and compact, with a short barrel, which works well in a diagonal. Oddly I like it for splitting doubles.

All my weather apps are a tad inaccurate. I'm not sure what methods they use to actually predict the weather. Possibly cartomancy or the examination of animal entrails. The jetstream seems to have shifted for the better though.

I honestly didn't know what it was. I am thinking of sausages now though.

I've had a good run as well.

This explains what I've been seeing the past few nights. Aurora hunters were given a treat in the early hours of Monday when the Northern Lights created a display of "pillars and greens" visible to the naked eye. A clear night sky, a set moon and several solar flares created the perfect conditions to see the aurora off the Norfolk coast, which, when photographed, also revealed purple hues. The Northern Lights are caused by the interaction of the solar wind - a stream of charged particles escaping the Sun - and our planet's magnetic field and atmosphere. ~ BBC News

I don't know where these are made but they're remarkably good for what they cost. Orion market the same zoom. There may be others.

Well, this Barlowed eyepiece has impressed me. The (SvBony) element basically turns it into a 5.8mm EP. I certainly see no loss of anything in use.

I'm still a bit ambivalent about whether prisms or mirrors are better. I've recently returned to a TV Enhanced Aluminium on my 72ED due to back focus issues.

Mine is quite old and had the original winged eyecup. I bought the 'wingless' eyecup a few years later. I think these are now bundled with the entire range. IIRC the Morpheus were fairly new (and a lot cheaper lol) when I bought mine.

Baader eyecups have always been weird. I finally managed to put a far less annoying one on my old 14mm Morpheus a couple of years ago. Even then you have to be careful if you try to roll it down. If the rubber accidentally detaches from the metal collar there is a lot of grease.

No, but there are a few meteor showers at the moment.

Sounds good, looks great.

Or buy the 'Astromania' version which is cheaper, even though it's almost certainly made in the same factory.

Yeah, they're 15mm TV's. I've experimented with a lot of pairs. These are probably the only ones I use now. The 12mm GSO Plossls have the barrels from the borked WO EP's.

I think it was the visible debris that really soured me to them. They would probably be OK except for that.

I wasn't too impressed with the bundled 20mm WO's and they were full of debris. I eventually went with 20mm SWAN's although the entire FOV can't be used. I have others. The WO's have a reputation for not being easy to merge. I mainly use them for lunar with a 127mm Mak.

I'm not saying ...

I'll bet money they came out of the same factory the 'Celestron' ones did.

Or Hop Twister ...

I've been known to burp after too much Butty Bach.

That makes sense.

Don't you have to say abracadabra first?

They can repair watches?