Size Matters!

[newman]

Well my time now:

The new 35mm Panoptic paired off with my smallest EP's the Nagler Zoom and the new (to me) 9mm Ortho

Wow, I never knew Budweiser produced Barlows..

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Wow, I never knew Budweiser produced Barlows..

They do, but they are prone to double vision

[MjrTom]

lol

Mmm Budweiser! far tastier than baked beans

[Damo636]

Well my time now:

The new 35mm Panoptic paired off with my smallest EP's the Nagler Zoom and the new (to me) 9mm Ortho

I see the big guy has arrived safely Mark.

The Budweiser barlow's are excellent and i use them a LOT !

[MjrTom]

I see the big guy has arrived safely Mark.

The Budweiser barlow's are excellent and i use them a LOT !

Yes arrived safely thanks

Now nicknamed the holy hand grenade

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

lol

Mmm Budweiser! far tastier than baked beans

That would be the Czech Budweiser (from Budvar), I trust

[MjrTom]

That would be the Czech Budweiser (from Budvar), I trust

Mmm very nice as well, a bit harder to get hold of in the UK though....

What was a surprise was that the Baader Hyperion 36mm with its 72 degress FOV actually weighs considerably less than the TV 36mm Panoptic with its 68 degree FOV.

But then again the Baader edge performance is not great on my f/6 scope.

[spaceboy]

I do miss the Baader 31mm Aspheric. It was so light and I found it a superb EP in my newts but sadly let me down in my refractor. While the 31mm Nag would take some beating view wise the weight often makes it a worry to use.

[CGolder]

I went from a 36 hyp to a 41 pan... you think the 35mm is a big eyepiece lol

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[MjrTom]

Yeah I really wanted the 36mm hyperion to perform but it looked like a flock of sea gulls in the outer 30% of the field meaning that the actual sharp area was no wider than I could get from the 24mm Panoptic

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Curious, I looked through a Hyperion 36 in the 16" RC at our university, and spotted no such effect. At F/8 it is perhaps more tolerant, but even your F/6.3 scope should not be too severe on the EP. I remember rating my Paragon 40 higher than the Hyperion 36. I wondered if it was my personal bias, but your comments combined with my experience with the Paragon in the 80 mm F/6 I have, in which it performs very well indeed, suggest the Paragon is better.

[smudgeball]

Well I've just received my 28mm finetuning ring so here's a pic

(with the obligitory tin of beans for scale )

Neil

[Hypernova]

Nice eyepiece

I still long after one of the 28mm UWANs/Nirvanas to give the ultimate wide field in my dob. I suppose though that a lot more penny pinching is on the agenda until say Christmas time!

[Damo636]

Hi Tom. If you can get one you will not regret it. The Nirvana is better value and identical. A relative brought me the UWAN back from the states recently for a lot less than even the Nirvana costs over here in rip off Britain Its a stunning ep and i cannot ever see me parting with it.

[Hypernova]

Yes we do tend to get stung living here, at the current exchange rate the UWAN is a smidge over £210 in the states but I suppose that the shipping and import duty that inevitably get added on would make it not worth my while.

Please let me know how you get on with it in your 200p dob, same 'scope as the one I am using, as I would be interested to know how well it performs

[Damo636]

For some reasion some items seem to get tagged by the customs and others not. I managed to get flocking material from the States recently and it slipped through unnoticed. I have a barlow incoming at the minute so keeping the fingers crossed for the same result. As for the UWAN's performace with the dob, its superb Tom. I had a 35mm Panoptic as well as the UWAN in my possession until lately. I compared them both at length for a few weeks and decided to sell the Panoptic. To my eyes the UWAN was every bit its equal optically, same true fov but with the slightly higher magnification the contrast was noticeably better. The one downside to the UWAN is the weight, its HEAVY!, and does require some sort of counterweight system. Some users also find the eyecup a bit unwieldy, i personally have no problems with it.

[Hypernova]

Ahh just spent 200 wongas on a mint WO version, should be here friday!

[Damo636]

Congrats Tom, its a cracking eyepiece and i am sure you will love it. I see in another thread you have the taxi magnet incoming as well, you will need it!!!