Best view of the moon you have ever had

[Russko13]

Just curious to what eyepiece you have used or currently use to get the best visual image of the moon, looking to do the 'lunar 100' and am thinking of buying an eyepiece that will help me out

[ronin]

Whats the scope?

Makes a fair bit of difference to the eyepiece, I range from a 350mm achro refractor to a 1500mm Mak.

The view I remember was a 25mm through a 1500mm FL SCT.

But no good for the Luanr 100 as you need to get to the craters.

[John]

The best views of the Moon I've had come with my 12" dob and the 5mm Pentax XW eyepiece which gives 318x with that scope. I've managed to pick out details less than 1 arc second in apparent size with that combination which is less than 1 mile across.

[Mr Spock]

My best view are usually with my 8mm LVW at x294. The LVW is a very comfortable eyepiece to use and is nice and sharp too.

[DommyDevil18]

December 27th 2012 when it had a Halo 

[Pig]

The best views I have had have been with my 6mm Delos and my 3-6mm Nagler zoom, in both the CPC 9.25 and the Pronto scopes.

Very different views but both very clear indeed, the 9.25 allowed me to see the smaller craterlets on the floor of Plato whilst the Pronto gave very contrasting greys right across the lunar surface.

[Mark in Macc]

C9.25 and WO binoviewers combined with WO 20 mm WA eyepieces that came with the binos. Outstanding and an experience that completely changed my mind about binoviewers.

[DRT]

CPC1100 with Baader 8mm-24mm Zoom MkIII. The sharpest views I have had at high mag I have had with it is at the 8mm setting on the zoom, giving 350x.

I'm not sure what good looks like in terms of the most resolution you can see on the moon but that combination is breathtaking to me. I haven't had a truely clear night since I bought the scope and EP so can't wait to see what they can do under a clear, dark sky.

[jetstream]

VX10 F4.8 dob and 6mm Delos/Nagler zoom.Viewing at the terminator near Alpine valley the view was stunning,caught some craters and shadows that highlighted the height and depth of them,awe inspiring.The Delos is better(to me) than the zoom on this,but the zoom gave me more mag-up to about 300x one night.I can almost always go 150x(Delos),200x a bit(Delos) and more not so often (zoom).The level of detail seen is amazing....still looking for that central rille in the Alpine Valley,that might take a few years...

[melsky]

WO binoviewers with the 20mm eyepieces for me too, I keep comparing them to my Ethos eyepieces which must be miles better but using both eyes just snaps the fine lunar detail out so easily.

Mel

[Ibbo!]

When it was in front of the sun in 2006

apart from that 8" SCT with Baader bino viewers x2.5 powermate with a pair of 18mm Tak eyepieces

it was quite nice with a Tak 130 with the same combination but the seeing was bad

Steve

[TheWelshMagician]

Best view I've had is either my 8mm or to get closer is the 5mm

[Russko13]

Thanks guys and I'm going to be using both an ed80 and a Skyywatcher 200p, will probably be using the dob most when it comes to the moon mind