What did the postman bring?

[Sky-searcher]

3 hours ago, KevS said:

New 152 f5.9 from TS has arrived...………….sorry chaps.

K

Appears that these TS optics fracs should come with a warning ⚠️ that you will never see clear skies again! Make a great ornament though 😂

[heliumstar]

After a few days in quarantine (are you guys doing this as well?) I unpacked a little package.

Inside:

 

Old hack:

 

New:

 

Just to add. Weight saving in comparison to Tak tube holder + ADM Losmandy bar is almost 400g. Pretty good.

 

Edited June 6, 2020 by heliumstar

[Nigella Bryant]

Drain pipes arrived for the pire build, it looks boring but I'm excited to get project going, lol.

[Tenor Viol]

Just books today

[F15Rules]

An early Fathers' Day gift from my kids 😎..

I owned a new Morpheus 17.5mm soon after their launch, having previously owned a 14mm which was excellent.. sadly, enforced early retirement necessitated my letting some kit go, but I always said the first eyepiece I would replace when circumstances allowed would be the Morph 17.5mm.

This one arrived with Royal Mail today..

Optically one of the 3 best eyepieces I've ever owned - and the most comfortable..👍

Dave

 

Edited June 6, 2020 by F15Rules

[steveex2003]

12 minutes ago, F15Rules said:

An early Fathers' Day gift from my kids 😎..

I owned a new Morpheus 17.5mm soon after their launch, having previously owned a 14mm which was excellent.. sadly, enforced early retirement necessitated my letting some kit go, but I always said the first eyepiece I would replace when circumstances allowed would be the Morph 17.5mm.

This one arrived with Royal Mail today..

Optically one of the 3 best eyepieces I've ever owned - and the most comfortable..👍

Dave

 

 

 

 

I was the chap who bought your first 17.5mm. It, and a Vixen LVW 22mm remain my favourite EP's.

[F15Rules]

4 minutes ago, steveex2003 said:

I was the chap who bought your first 17.5mm. It, and a Vixen LVW 22mm remain my favourite EP's.

Cheers Steve.

The LVW 22mm is also one of my top 3..the third one, for the record is the Pentax  XW10mm/XL10.5mm (ok, that's 4 in total really!😂).

Dave

[Kluson]

On 06/06/2020 at 16:49, heliumstar said:

After a few days in quarantine (are you guys doing this as well?) I unpacked a little package.

Inside:

 

Old hack:

 

New:

 

Just to add. Weight saving in comparison to Tak tube holder + ADM Losmandy bar is almost 400g. Pretty good.

 

Yes I do exactly the same, The shopping gets all wiped down with Isopropyl before it goes in the fridge. All the fruit and veg washed with soap and water. Packaging left for 72 hours 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

[Davey-T]

ZWO ASI2600MC to put on the Sharpstar 150HNT, a few adapters supplied but none that add up to the right size which is a bit strange given that its a colour camera and the standard 55mm is needed for the scope, the supplied ones seem to add up to 55ish if you add a T ring  will have to file a couple of millimetres off the supplied 21mm adapter to get some adjustment on the VariLock, will double check measurements before filing 😂

Couldn't photograph other end of box as it kept wanting to scan the Q code

And a prize to anyone that can read the manual without a magnifying glass

[Nigella Bryant]

4 minutes ago, Davey-T said:

ZWO ASI2600MC to put on the Sharpstar 150HNT, a few adapters supplied but none that add up to the right size which is a bit strange given that its a colour camera and the standard 55mm is needed for the scope, the supplied ones seem to add up to 55ish if you add a T ring  will have to file a couple of millimetres off the supplied 21mm adapter to get some adjustment on the VariLock, will double check measurements before filing 😂

Couldn't photograph other end of box as it kept wanting to scan the Q code

And a prize to anyone that can read the manual without a magnifying glass

I love red assessories, lol. 

[Davey-T]

20 minutes ago, Nigella Bryant said:

I love red assessories, lol. 

Keep getting the urge to decorate it with some tinsel 😂

Dave

[Greymouser]

I have just got this out of self imposed isolation, after receiving the other day. ( Glad to know I am not the only one doing this! ) Perhaps not the best eyepiece out there, but the 10 mm is very good in my opinion, so I am hoping for similar quality with this one.

Now all I need is the clouds to co operate, and then decide if I can justify a similar sized Morpheus...

[heliumstar]

1 hour ago, Greymouser said:

I have just got this out of self imposed isolation, after receiving the other day. ( Glad to know I am not the only one doing this! ) Perhaps not the best eyepiece out there, but the 10 mm is very good in my opinion, so I am hoping for similar quality with this one.

Now all I need is the clouds to co operate, and then decide if I can justify a similar sized Morpheus...

This is an eyepiece that is just phenomenal. I use it as a finder and barlow it to 8mm sometimes. I have yet to look through something better in the 15-20mm range. I don't know what Baader did here but this eyepiece is out of this world for all my scopes.

[johninderby]

Amazon packing at work. All that was in the box was a Baader adapter. 🙄

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, johninderby said:

Amazon packing at work. All that was in the box was a Baader adapter. 🙄

 

That should have been sent in a padded envelope!🙄

Edited June 8, 2020 by Guest

[Paul73]

After a couple of months of wanted ads and scanning the classifieds, this baby came up!

 

This joins the 8mm Delos and a 24mm 82° ES to complete my “minimalist” eyepiece collection.

Paul

 

 

Edited June 8, 2020 by Paul73

[Kluson]

1 hour ago, johninderby said:

Amazon packing at work. All that was in the box was a Baader adapter. 🙄

I had a box arrive like that but my wife didn't believe me 🙂 

[johninderby]

Did receive a micro sd card in a box that size from Amazon once so such packing is not rare.🙄🙄🙄

Edited June 8, 2020 by johninderby

[Kluson]

3 hours ago, Greymouser said:

I have just got this out of self imposed isolation, after receiving the other day. ( Glad to know I am not the only one doing this! ) Perhaps not the best eyepiece out there, but the 10 mm is very good in my opinion, so I am hoping for similar quality with this one.

Now all I need is the clouds to co operate, and then decide if I can justify a similar sized Morpheus...

I would be interested to know your findings, perhaps you could kindly give us a review when the clouds part 🙂

[Davey-T]

2 hours ago, johninderby said:

Amazon packing at work. All that was in the box was a Baader adapter.

I recently received two plastic bottles with spray heads in  Jiffy bag, both with tops snapped of so a big box would have been nice 😁

Dave

[Kluson]

21 minutes ago, Davey-T said:

I recently received two plastic bottles with spray heads in  Jiffy bag, both with tops snapped of so a big box would have been nice 😁

Dave

There seems to be no consistency in the way Amazon packages are packed.

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

3 hours ago, merlin100 said:

That should have been sent in a padded envelope!🙄

At least it's the correct item. Expecting a hand tapping set today to do a focuser upgrade, I instead received an embroidery kit! 🙄

[johninderby]

4 minutes ago, ScouseSpaceCadet said:

At least it's the correct item. Expecting a hand tapping set today to do a focuser upgrade, I instead received an embroidery kit! 🙄

At least you will have something to keep you occupied on cloudy nights, 😁😁😁

[markse68]

I thought I’d lost this it took so long- I couldn’t afford a Zeiss prism diagonal...

oh wait 😁

 

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

34 minutes ago, KevS said:

Business opportunity; eyepiece socks with focal length...…….. in gold lame, especially if one is lucky enough to own televue or pentax glasses. Stop press, SWMBO has asked is it a hand or machine embroidery kit?

A hand kit.. some sort of chinese pattern. I didn't look too hard before stuffing it back into the packaging, flabbergasted!