Which eyepiece have you had the longest

[mikeDnight]

A pair of 16.8mm Super Abbe Orthoscopics. Cheap as chips and I'll never part with them, as when they are in my barlowed binoviewer, they will best some of the finest mono eyepieces going. They never disappoint!

 

[Highburymark]

Panoptic 24mm - still used every session, home and when travelling. 

[bish]

Even though there are better eps out there I can't seem to part with my 8mm radian.

[Joves]

Celestron 10 and 25(??)mm that came with my very first scope. Have naturally been with me the longest, but know I will never ever EVER bother looking through them ever again. Not that they’re terrible... they did the job, but I have significantly better replacements in my arsenal now.

[Joves]

Must add, I upgraded from these to the entire Ethos lineup. A fairly significant upgrade. To answer the second part of the question, the Ethos will remain with me forever, I imagine.

[Joves]

58 minutes ago, Highburymark said:

Panoptic 24mm - still used every session, home and when travelling. 

A quality eyepiece that I seem to use almost every (infrequent) session also.

[niallk]

Nagler 13T6

Beeeeautifully performing EP

[Highburymark]

3 hours ago, Joves said:

Must add, I upgraded from these to the entire Ethos lineup. A fairly significant upgrade. To answer the second part of the question, the Ethos will remain with me forever, I imagine.

Wow - that qualifies for best eyepiece upgrade of all time. Amazing collection of astronomy gear you have Joves.

[Joves]

Thanks mate, yours is full of quality gear itself.

[Merlin66]

I have a collection of smooth sided TV Plossls (That safety recess on today's eyepieces is the Devil's work - should be banned!!!!) from the early 1980's.

Those and my Ziess 6mm Monocentric have been in my box ever since.

Why change???

 

[scarp15]

10mm Delos, the comfortable eye placement and 20mm eye relief for a medium power eye piece, when the delos range had initially became available, was transformational. 

[RT65CB-SWL]

This one...

I think it is a 'Fullerscopes' 0.965" / 6mm Ortho. I have had it for about thirty years.

My first 'serious' upgrade when I used to have a Prinz Astral 500.

[wookie1965]

My BST 8MM ED had that 4 yrs now.

[Saganite]

The one eyepiece that has remained in my box for years whilst others have come and gone is my Circle T 18mm VT Ortho, and if I ever find another I will pair them up in my bino.

[RT65CB-SWL]

I forgot to add this one earlier...

It is a brass RAS e/p in a 1.25" adaptor made for me by Beacon Hill Telescopes. I have had it for twenty years, though the eyepiece itself is older, (i.e. late 19th/early 20th century). 

[ollypenrice]

I only have one rock solid keeper but it isn't one I've had the longest. It's the 13mm Ethos I bought from Moonshane. My oldest is probably a 3.8 Nagler bought second hand 17 years ago. It's great - but not in the 14 inch Meade SCT which is now the default visual scope!

Olly

[Alfian]

I'm a relative newby compared some here, but I've had my Revelation 32mm plossl for  6 years, almost since my re-launch into astronomy began. Its not the best, or the worst EP in the world but its serves its purpose as a finder EP and I can't see any good reason to replace it.

[Littleguy80]

I’m a relative newbie but my longest serving eyepiece is my 6mm BGO. I agonised over what eyepiece to buy for planetary use and couldn’t believe my luck when I got a response to my wanted ad. It’s survived the transition to a dob and in many ways inspired the purchase of 5 more orthos since! They’re unbeatable when it comes to sharpness and contrast. 

[TheLookingGlass]

Baader Morpheus.

[andrew63]

Clearing out the shed, I came across this today. It's a 18mm Ramsden eyepiece with a lovely brass holder.  Not been used for a while as you can see - probably around 1980.

andrew

[Louis D]

2 hours ago, andrew63 said:

Clearing out the shed, I came across this today. It's a 18mm Ramsden eyepiece with a lovely brass holder.  Not been used for a while as you can see - probably around 1980.

andrew

Hopefully it gets a good cleaning for a chance at a new life. ?

[Saganite]

Seeing that Andrew reminded me that the 18mm Circle T ortho is not my longest serving eyepiece, it is this barlow type 1" eyepiece which is almost 4 decades older !

I used it in a homemade 6" reflector in 1974. It remained my only eyepiece for many years. The inner tube with the negative lens had to be slid inside the main tube to increase magnification, and I never new what power I was using. It did not seem to matter then, but it showed me The Moon , Jupiter and Saturn to my complete satisfaction. I suspect it came from Fullerscopes but I do not remember.

2 hours ago, andrew63 said:

Clearing out the shed, I came across this today. It's a 18mm Ramsden eyepiece with a lovely brass holder.  Not been used for a while as you can see - probably around 1980.

andrew

 

[mark81]

15mm BST for six months so far.....? !!   Its the first EP I have ever bought and the way things are going right now, it may be the last for a while ?

The good thing is, it goes great with my ST80 and sits in the diagonal almost all the time....

[RiponJas]

Only started earlier this year and have changed ep's to a set of BST's but kept hold of the basic 40mm plossl I got t the beginning. Is a good choice when finding objects for me. I see no reason to part with it either. ?

[N3ptune]

My Xcel LX 18mm resists the test of time so far, I think it's a keeper. Probably until I try a Televue someday, against Explore Scientific the 18mm is still standing.