Show me your eyepiece/accessories case, please.

[Louis D]

1 hour ago, balzer said:

I thought of 24mm panoptic. Don't you think the 40mm is a overkill. It gives a me approx 14x magnification. My fl is 558

I use my 40mm Meade 5000 SWA all the time in my 430mm 72ED yielding 11x.  I love sweeping star fields, looking at large OCs like the Pleiades, Hyades, Collinder 70, etc.  I can almost take in the entire Orion complex at once with the 6.3 degree TFOV.  The exit pupil is still quite reasonable at 6.7mm as well.  My thinking is when you've got a short focal length, play to its strength, wide fields.  For higher powers, I use my 127 Mak on the other side of my alt-az mount.

[balzer]

I'll look into 40mm. Seems interesting thing. Thanks for your advice.

[Louis D]

4 hours ago, balzer said:

I'll look into 40mm. Seems interesting thing. Thanks for your advice.

Having been observing for over 20 years, it's kind of exciting to see familiar patches of sky in a new way.  You pick out relationships between objects you don't notice while panning about.

[DRT]

Here is my new collection of EPs...

 

The space below the XW 7mm awaits its 5mm sibling  

 

[Highburymark]

Very nice Derek - looks like a serious case of glass - no frivolous colour schemes, just quality

[25585]

On 07/06/2018 at 14:42, Louis D said:

Having been observing for over 20 years, it's kind of exciting to see familiar patches of sky in a new way.  You pick out relationships between objects you don't notice while panning about.

Thats the aperture increase thrill as well, of course. But big FOV on OCs are like gazing into a jewel box. The Hyades are a favourite of mine, with the bright red star in the middle, a ruby among diamonds.

[25585]

On 07/06/2018 at 10:18, balzer said:

I'll look into 40mm. Seems interesting thing. Thanks for your advice.

You don't need a finder scope with a 14x mag ep. I use one of my 2 inch 40s as one on the 500mm TV Genesis and a 1.25 40mm Plossl for my 80 Equinox, also 500mm FL.

Edited June 9, 2018 by 25585

[ASSA]

Hi,

Thats my low budget case:) pair of kit 25 mm eyepiece (kellners propably), pair of BCO 18 m, pair of CZJ 15.5 mm.

Regards

Luke

 

[balzer]

On 09/06/2018 at 21:15, 25585 said:

You don't need a finder scope with a 14x mag ep. I use one of my 2 inch 40s as one on the 500mm TV Genesis and a 1.25 40mm Plossl for my 80 Equinox, also 500mm FL.

That's it. You twisted my arm. I am searching for a 40mm ep. I'll get back to you when I get one 

[Pig]

Mine is rather minimalistic these days... Not in the case is a 40mm SW Aero and a Baader 31mm Aspheric ?

 

Edited June 13, 2018 by Pig

[Alan White]

Nothing wrong with minimalistic Shaun

[John]

My travel / outreach / whatever set. Note the careful arrangement !

Contents: BST Starguider 25mm, Orbinar 7.2mm - 21.5mm zoom, Japanese 4mm HD ortho, Baader Q-Turret 2.25x barlow, Svbony UHC filter plus a couple of other bits and bobs.

 

[Alan White]

A very neat ? arrangement John.

[iPeace]

Here's one.

[John]

Interesting. Are they capped inside the baggies ?

 

[iPeace]

10 minutes ago, John said:

Interesting. Are they capped inside the baggies ?

 

Oh yes. Always capped when not in use.

[Alan White]

15 hours ago, iPeace said:

Here's one.

Oddly, when I looked at this my initial thought was....'why has Mike got a box of ice cubes?'
Took a minute to see the pouches.
I must need a start of the weekend cold one!

[DRT]

4 minutes ago, Alan White said:

I must need a start of the weekend cold one!

What a wonderful idea! 

Cheers  ?   

[parallaxerr]

After weeks of searching I finally found some new pluck foam for my small Maplin flight case. It turns out the case is a standard EN size and the foam was an exact fit and only £4! Needless to say I bought spares! Just enough space for an ES52° 30mm when they're released and then I'm done

[Littleguy80]

11 minutes ago, parallaxerr said:

After weeks of searching I finally found some new pluck foam for my small Maplin flight case. It turns out the case is a standard EN size and the foam was an exact fit and only £4! Needless to say I bought spares! Just enough space for an ES52° 30mm when they're released and then I'm done

Looking good  Where did you get the foam from?

[parallaxerr]

5 minutes ago, Littleguy80 said:

Looking good  Where did you get the foam from?

Ah yes, how silly of me not to say! I got it from here....

https://www.cases-and-enclosures.co.uk/foam-blocks-sheets.html

[Floater]

2 hours ago, parallaxerr said:

... Needless to say I bought spares!

... and then I'm done

Hmmm ... Something not hanging together here. ??

p.s. Have used the same company. Thumbs up. ?

Edited July 4, 2018 by Floater

[parallaxerr]

On 04/07/2018 at 21:07, Floater said:

Hmmm ... Something not hanging together here. ??

p.s. Have used the same company. Thumbs up. ?

OK, you were right. The thing is, I ran out of mag and Saturn was begging for more. Added a TS UWAN 4mm ?

[Stu]

Been a long time since I posted in here. This is a bit of a temporary solution, but I’m back in the 2” game, which is fun.

The thing on the right is an extension tube for the Tak when used with a 1.25” Prism.

[PeterW]

I have the Myriad version of he one on the left.. quite a biggie.

Peter