40mm EP advice please

[alfingido]

After buying my LX90 and a few eyepieces, I am looking for a good 40mm, but its been some years since I last used a telescope and even more since I had a 40mm, so I am lost!

So, looking for recommendations that will work well in my 8" SCT.

First thought was an Explore Scientific 40mm 68deg, or is this over spending?

Allan

[Dannae]

Hi Allan,

I can't comment on the ES unfortunately but I have experience of the 40mm Panoptic, Pentax XL (now the XW) and the TMB Paragon (no longer made) and I can highly recommend them all.

Regards

Dannae

[Tinker1947]

The 41mm Panoptic is a nice weighty EP...works nicely in my 300P......

http://www.telescopehouse.com/acatalog/TeleVue_41mm_Panoptic_Eyepiece_2__.html

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

I have used both a TMB Paragon 40mm and Vixen LVW 42mm in my C8. Both very good. The Paragon is no longer made, but the Skywatcher Aero is a clone.

[Frenchgow]

I regularly use the sw aero and is one of my favorites,very good ep,if a little heavy

Regards

[YKSE]

Assuming that ES 68deg is of the same quality of their other eyepieces in this catagory, it should be very good, I reckon. you should understand that over 1.2 kg is not a light eyepiece.

I regularly use the sw aero and is one of my favorites,very good ep,if a little heavy
 

Aero is my heaviest eyepiece, 525gram on my scale  , very good for the money. Comparing to other 40mm eyepieces, Aero is feather light actually.

[bomberbaz]

As you are using an SCT it will be more forgivimng on eyepiece quality. So you don't need to go out getting very expensive brand names if you don't want to/have the cash for them. I used a 33mm version of this when I had an SCT http://www.firstlightoptics.com/william-optics-eyepieces/william-optics-swan-eyepiece.html under £100 and the views were excellent in the SCT. Very well corrected, very good eye relief, 70 degree FOV and relatively light weight at only 570gm. A very good option if yyou are on a budget.

[alan potts]

I have the 41mm Panoptic and it vignettes slightly on my LX scope. The 40mm Maxvision or the same Meade iv a very good choice, there was a 40mm on the classified a few weeks back, they do not move so fast so it may still be available.  Yours choice of the ExSc is the same eyepiece in a different skirt.

If you cannot see the Maxvision on the sales area PM me and I will let you know who was selling it.

Alan

[Daniel-K]

starfox was selling tis not sure if he has sold it.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

I do note that the LVW 42 vignettes a bit in the Denkmeier filter-switch diagonal.

[Moonshane]

I really like my old 40mm tv widefield. Not common but lovely and also cheap when they do come up.

[alfingido]

I didn't realise the ES 40 was so heavy, 1.2kg is a lot of weight to put on the back of the ota, especially as I am thinking of putting a crayford style focuser on there. I couldn't find the ad for the 40mm in the classifieds, but, if its as heavy as the ES, I don't really mind. Thanks for the info on the SW aero, I didn't realise it was a clone of the TMB, I have had a couple of those in the past and been very impressed, so I have just ordered an aero 40mm. I have read a few reviews of it too and it seems to do all I want.

Thanks all

Allan