Ultra Wide Angle Eyepiece Questions and Help

[jespola]

Good morning all,

I need some advice with Ultra Wide Angle eyepieces. Last year I attended a start party and friend showed me the double cluster through my telescope with his super wide angle eyepiece. The view was amazing it was up close and very detailed. I recently bought a Ultra Wide Angle eyepiece which I used for the first time last night. The only difference is that the cluster was visible, but very far away. The eye piece specs are below along with my telescope details. I guess I'm asking for advice as to which eyepiece I should use to get the same results we got at the star party. Maybe the Ultra Wide Angle I'm using has too big of an angle? Standing by for inputs. Thank you.

My details:

Telescope

Sky-Watcher Explorer-200P (EQ5) Parabolic Newtonian Reflector Telescope

Type Parabolic Newtonian Reflector Primary mirror 200mm Focal length (tele) 1000 Max aperture (tele) f/5 Eyepiece 10mm & 25mm, x2 Deluxe Barlow Lens Magnification x40, x80, x100, x200

Eyepiece

Sky-Watcher Sky Panorama 15mm Ultra-Wide Eyepiece

Type Ultrawide Eyepiece Focal Length 15mm Apparent Field of View 82 Degree Eyepiece Barrels 1.25 Inch/31.7mm Format For use with

Any 1.25 Inch eyepiece holder

[John]

I guess the big question is what eyepiece were you using at the star party ?

You would need to duplicate the quality and focal length of the eyepiece to get the same results.

15mm is a sort of medium power. If you looked through, say, a 5mm Nagler, at the star party then the cluster would have looked a lot larger in the field of view.

[Spec-Chum]

Agree with John here . I suspect the eyepiece you looked through at the star party was a much lower focal length.

The panorama gets good press and looks to be a quality eyepiece and I suspect it would Barlow quite well to give you 7.5x

[jespola]

Thank you guys for the inputs. Ok so I have a 2x and 5x Barlow. Should I try the 2x and see if I get a closer view?

[Spec-Chum]

Definately the 2x. 5x (333x mag) is way too much for a 200p here in the UK, except maybe on Mr moon.

[faulksy]

also was the back ground sky darker at your star party this would give better contrast and maybe the illosion of the object closer ?