Nagler 3-6mm Zoom

[Pig]

What did you do to hurt your ankle Alan ?

[alan potts]

Shuan,

Believe it or not stepped awkward onto a brick on the ground and it just went one way an me the other. Banged my head too but no damage there but I need to rebuild the concrete drive. I have almost finished the observatory but am not fit enough to do the top part yet. Two more days I guess and I should be OK again.

Have not had a scope out for 10 days, ow I know what it like being in England.

Alan

[Stargazer_00]

Hope you get better soon buddy

[Pig]

Sounds very painful indeed but that's ankles for you.

10 days is a breeze Ive waited 3 weeks before

[Stargazer_00]

my zoom just turned up at work sun is out so I'll give it a go on the sun at lunch! Been a very Green and Black couple of weeks!

[Naemeth]

my zoom just turned up at work sun is out so I'll give it a go on the sun at lunch! Been a very Green and Black couple of weeks!

I definitely remember a time you said you wouldn't get TV .

Hope you get on with it, and look forward to a first light report soon .

[Stargazer_00]

Just had it out in the sun! parfocal zoom pretty much says it all! awesome. Going to have to trim my eye lashes.

[Pig]

Im still hunting down my next purchase

[John]

Im still hunting down my next purchase

Presumably something to fit in between the 17.3mm Delos and the 34mm Maxivision ?

[Pig]

Presumably something to fit in between the 17.3mm Delos and the 34mm Maxivision ?

Spot on John

[NGC 1502]

Just had it out in the sun! parfocal zoom pretty much says it all! awesome. Going to have to trim my eye lashes.

Don't know if others find the same as me, but when solar observing I find eyerelief on an eyepiece seems a lot less than using it at night. I think it's because in daytime everyone's eye pupil is much smaller than when dark adapted, leading to the effect I've just described.

So the lesser eyerelief on the 3 - 6 zoom may be fine at night and you won't have to trim your eyelashes

Each person may find differently of course, Ed.

[Stargazer_00]

Yeah I thought the same ed. Cheers though!

[Naemeth]

I've got fairly long eyelashes and didn't do anything to them, just moved them out of the way .

[Pig]

You could always tape them to your eyelids or shave them off this smiley doesn't have eyelashes

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

You could always tape them to your eyelids or shave them off this smiley doesn't have eyelashes

I trust you mean duck tape, the true engineering solution

[Pig]

I trust you mean duck tape, the true engineering solution

Of course Michael, you could also hammer the tape in place

[Naemeth]

Of course Michael, you could also hammer the tape in place

What a quacking idea .

In all seriousness I think this has strayed quite far from the topic..

[Pig]

It sure has

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

For me the Nagler zoom has too little eye relief, and is rather too short for my main scope. Eye relief (or lack of) is the main reason I have not yet got a zoom EP.

[Pig]

The greatness of this eyepiece negates the eye relief, for some reason I do not even notice it

[John]

The greatness of this eyepiece negates the eye relief, for some reason I do not even notice it

For many glasses wearers 10mm is a bit too tight though.

[Naemeth]

For many glasses wearers 10mm is a bit too tight though.

Indeed, I can't see the full field with glasses. Thing is, I stopped wearing my glasses quite a while ago and found that the little astigmatism I may see with big exit pupils is made up by there not being any extra elements in the optical train. It certainly never helped that my glasses weren't clean.

[Pig]

Yes I agree John I prefer more eye relief that's why I like the Delos and when the time comes for me to wear glasses maybe this eyepiece will not be of much use to me

[RT65CB-SWL]

Don't know if others find the same as me, but when solar observing I find eyerelief on an eyepiece seems a lot less than using it at night. I think it's because in daytime everyone's eye pupil is much smaller than when dark adapted, leading to the effect I've just described.

So the lesser eyerelief on the 3 - 6 zoom may be fine at night and you won't have to trim your eyelashes

Each person may find differently of course, Ed.

I think you are correct Ed. I have the same problem when observing the Sun. I thought it was me!

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

I do need to wear glasses (1.75 and 2.00 astigmatism in left and right eye respectively). Any EP with less than 16 or 17 mm eye relief just does not work for me.