£300 for all the eyepieces you'll ever need. Sort of.

[miguel87]

Best laid plans etc etc

Just got my 12mm BST starguider in the post. My mismatched collection of Vixen SLV 6mm & 9mm, new 12mm, 20mm Vixen NPL and 32mm 2inch SW panaview (only 5 eyepieces) together with tal barlow should be all I ever need. 

If the starguider is as good as I have read, then I do not plan to upgrade any until they break or I lose them!

I'm pretty sure they cover the range of what my scope is capable of (200p EQ5). Barlowed 6mm gives 333x magnification and my panaview gives 31x mag with a modest 70° AFOV.

Yes, I could upgrade in optical quality, obviously. But that comes at a price and my eyepiece set is essentially a good quality but budget collection.

Nevertheless, I think it is all I will ever need, which I think is pretty good going at £300 quid for the lot.

I was sad enough to pump the numbers into this great website to visualise the range of my eyepieces. This doesnt include any barlowed eyepieces.

Edited April 18, 2020 by miguel87

[John]

Sounds like you have got a good range now.

Paying more would certainly take you into the realm of diminishing returns.

Its getting a taste for very wide field views that costs the money 

 

 

[miguel87]

Yeah I can totally see the temptation. Even looking at a less than perfectly corrected 70° AFOV is a very different experience to the typical 50° plossl.

I cant believe you can get 100° plus these days and I cant really image seeing that through an eyepiece. For the sake of my wallet and the weight on my focusser tube, I plan not to go there for the foreseeable future!

Edited April 18, 2020 by miguel87