Using large 100 degree 2" EP on Heritage 130P

[Mark at Beaufort]

Many of you will know that I enjoy using my Heritage 130P as a quick and go OTA. Recently I purchased a 1.25"/2" adapter to be able to use my 2" EPs. This photo shows the 9mm Myraid 100 degree EP in the adapter on top of a Baader 2.25X barlow. The mag is 162X and the view of the Moon is very good.

So an opportunity to experiment with an inexpensive 5" Newt.

 

 

 

[Paz]

Epic! ?

[Alan White]

All that money hanging on 5mm of plastic, 

you are brave Mark.

[niallk]

Wow!

Now add a Paracorr...

[John]

Nice experiment Mark !

I guess the 9mm is still a 100 degree eyepiece even with the 1.25" adapter in place - the field stop should allow that quite comfortably.

I tried the 13mm Ethos in a 5" SCT once 

 

[Mr niall]

That’s very cool, but I agree with @Alan White; kind of scary! ?

[25585]

21 hours ago, Alan White said:

All that money hanging on 5mm of plastic, 

you are brave Mark.

Myriads look more expensive than they are. 9mm is £159 from FLO. 

However, had Mark used an ES 9mm 120 deg costing £892, now that would have been scarier than a scary person in a scary place doing scary things!

[Littleguy80]

Neat set up, Mark! 

The 9mm Lunt HDC I have is actually a 1.25” eyepiece with an adapter on it to make it a 2” eyepiece. This just unscrews to make it 1.25”. Do the Myriads not have this feature? The bottom part of the Myriad in the picture looks similar to the Lunt. 

[LukeSkywatcher]

10 hours ago, Mr niall said:

That’s very cool, but I agree with @Alan White; kind of scary! ?

Its an AZ5 tripod/mount. Happily handles 130p Heritge and 2" EP 

[Mr niall]

14 minutes ago, LukeSkywatcher said:

Its an AZ5 tripod/mount. Happily handles 130p Heritge and 2" EP 

It’s not the mount, it’s the tiny tiny helical focusser floating in thin air that’s scary....

[Mark at Beaufort]

I know its was a possible risk but I felt it was worth the test. The 2" Adapter would allow, in theory, for me to use the very heavy 20mm Myraid - I won't take that risk.

In fact the view using this set up was very good indeed - having had good views of Venus, Jupiter and the Moon I had a go at Mu Librae and I was able to split the star into 2 (very tight).

This is truly a very good cheap little scope.

[happy-kat]

I've never worried about any weight I've put on the focuser, I've had my DSLR on it. The only risk is being so intent on finding focus you unscrew the focuser completely.