What's your most used eyepiece?

[FLO]

Inspired by Damiens previous thread.... What is the eyepiece you use most?

[GazOC]

32mm Celestron, to find stuff!!

Hopefully it'll be the 2" 30mm 80 Deg!

[radioactive]

well mine was a celestron 32mm I think however I have perhaps more than doubled my amount of eyepieces that #I own so this may well change

[The Warthog]

8mm Celestron X-Cel. Second would be the 32mm Plossl.

[OXO]

40mm EP Celestron as i don't use the Finder scopes i find this is perfect

[mark RD]

32mm Celestron for finding stuff and the odd image

Everyone seems to have one

Mark

[tom.yates]

31mm type 5 nag for wide field and for planets 6mm Monocentric( TMB) ALSO PR Of 19mm pans binoviewing

[Astroman]

32 mm Celestron Ultima.

[Ambermile]

Umm - sorry, don't understand the question. Eyepiece? Afraid you got me there

Arthur

[FLO]

32mm Meade Series 4000 (I detect a trend), then a 13.8 SWA or 9mm Orthoscopic.

[Grant]

A zoom eyepiece from Gaz when I brought my scope from him.... It's awesome! Means I can start wide-field, find it, then gradually zoom in, keeping the object centred the whole time, all without changing eyepieces, genius! It's 7mm-21mm and I love it!

[daz]

It was my 40mm Antares, but will now be the 2" 80 deg 30mm Revelation and the 32/20mm Meade 4000

[lunator]

Just to be different. 9mm Ortho (& barlow) for DS observing.

[GazOC]

32mm Celestron for finding stuff and the odd image

Everyone seems to have one

Mark

Aye, they knock them out on Ebay for 15 quid. Cracking VFM.

[GazOC]

Just to be different. 9mm Ortho (& barlow) for DS observing.

Any reason why you don't use a 4 or a 5 un Barlowed?

[The Warthog]

Just to be different. 9mm Ortho (& barlow) for DS observing.

Any reason why you don't use a 4 or a 5 un Barlowed?

I can think of a reason. But why an Ortho for DS?

[GazOC]

Maybe Double Star? I know it's Ians 'thing'?

The eyerelief on the 5mm is fine, if you wear specs then you couldn't use the 9mm anyway.

[FLO]

Just to be different. 9mm Ortho (& barlow) for DS observing.

Any reason why you don't use a 4 or a 5 un Barlowed?

I can think of a reason. But why an Ortho for DS?

An ortho is good 'whenever' you want extra sharpness/contrast/colour. It is only the FOV that can be 'difficult'.

[FLO]

... the one I use the most is the 10mm plossl ...

That figures ... it works well with your telescopes sweet-spot.

[FLO]

Most definitely

(I'll post more later - I'm off to bed )

[radioactive]

it may end off being a 2" kelner ep

[russ]

26mm Meade 4000 for low power

15mm Antares Elite for medium

5mm Lanthanum for high

Of the three the 15mm Elite is the most used i suppose.

Russ

[lunator]

Just to be different. 9mm Ortho (& barlow) for DS observing.

Any reason why you don't use a 4 or a 5 un Barlowed?

Gaz your are correct in my universe DS stands for Double Star not Deep Sky .

The reason I use the 9 + barlow is that the 2 levels of magnification I get with the newt are x133 & x266 which are ideal for medium to tight doublesand the Barlow gives me more combinations than the single high power eyepiece.

Cheers

Ian

[col]

my fave is a 25 mm i recieved with my tal some years ago, its wide angle and crisp view is very easy to use.

[FLO]

my fave is a 25 mm i received with my tal some years ago, its wide angle and crisp view is very easy to use.

The Tal 25mm does have a good reputation, as do their barlows 8)