Eyepiece inventory

[JeremyS]

I thought it was high time to do an eyepiece inventory. How do you know when you have too many eyepieces? Answer:

1. You can never have too many eyepieces

or

2. When you need to take a panorama to fit them all in.

Anyway: what's missing?

Panorama:

 

 

Edited August 1, 2020 by JeremyS

[banjaxed]

you don't need any more eyepieces you need more telescopes 😀

[JeremyS]

22 minutes ago, banjaxed said:

you don't need any more eyepieces you need more telescopes 😀

Arrrggghhh...now I know where I was going wrong 🤣

[iPeace]

30 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

Anyway: what's missing?

Hm. No Ethos? (Apologies, I don't recall whether you've tried them yet.)

Looks pretty complete to me.

[Geoff Barnes]

34 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

Anyway: what's missing?

Badly in need of a full set of Baader Morpheus if you ask me! 😀

[Alan White]

Plenty more room on the table

So your collection is rather minimalist Jeremy, room for more yet 😀

[Sunshine]

OMG! I don't even know what to say.

[JeremyS]

18 minutes ago, Sunshine said:

OMG! I don't even know what to say.

That's what my wife didn't even know what to say 🤣

[Tenor Viol]

2 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

That's what my wife didn't even know what to say 🤣

How good is she at mental arithmetic? 🤣

[F15Rules]

Jeremy, have you and Stu ever thought of getting married?

Dave

Edited August 1, 2020 by F15Rules

[JeremyS]

6 minutes ago, F15Rules said:

Jeremy, have you and Stu ever thought of getting married?

Dave

Not sure how good @Stu's cooking is Dave.....

 

[mikeDnight]

What's missing?   You could do with the full set of Brandon eyepieces and gold diagonal. Then a full set of Zeiss Abbe Ortho's could be squeezed in I think. I'd buy either of these options off you Jeremy,  cheap of course, if you didn't get along with them, or if you find yourself struggling for room. 

[Stu]

I suspect I may have more scopes than eyepieces at the moment! Something wrong there.

Wonderful collection Jeremy!

Oh, and incase you are tempted to ask, can I just decline your kind invitation..... I really can’t afford another divorce!! 🤣🤣

[JeremyS]

2 hours ago, Geoff Barnes said:

Badly in need of a full set of Baader Morpheus if you ask me! 😀

Only if I can file those kerfs flat 🤣

[iPeace]

1 hour ago, Tenor Viol said:

How good is she at mental arithmetic?

'Mental' indeed...

...but I've been somewhere close, myself

[JeremyS]

42 minutes ago, Stu said:

Oh, and incase you are tempted to ask, can I just decline your kind invitation..... I really can’t afford another divorce!! 🤣🤣

I'd never come between you and Mrs Stu, Stu. We think she's great.

🙂

 

[John]

Are you intending to downsize your collection Jeremy (or increase it, maybe ?) or do you feel that you have got to where you want to be now ?

 

[Highburymark]

Very nice collection Jeremy!

If there’s one bit of advice I could pass on, it’s don’t take up binoviewing.

[Highburymark]

Oops - maybe I spoke too soon - are those two pairs of BV eyepieces I see at right front?  In which case we really need to work on expanding your binoviewing collection...

[JeremyS]

10 minutes ago, Highburymark said:

Oops - maybe I spoke too soon - are those two pairs of BV eyepieces I see at right front?  In which case we really need to work on expanding your binoviewing collection...

Well spotted Mark!

[JeremyS]

31 minutes ago, John said:

Are you intending to downsize your collection Jeremy (or increase it, maybe ?) or do you feel that you have got to where you want to be now ?

 

Good question, John! A few weeks ago, when I took delivery of the Nagler 26, I wrote on these very pages that "I'm done with eyepieces".

There is only one that I'd really like to add and that is as much for sentimental reasons as any. The eyepiece in question is a Pentax XP 3.8mm (1-inch fitting). This i got about the same time as my Takahashi FS102. I was living in Singapore at the time and Mars was overhead. The XP gave stunning images in the FS102 (I tried loads of other eyepieces).

When I returned to the UK in 2004 I gave up visual astronomy almost completely, focussing on CCD, and stupidly I sold it.

[John]

Over the past few years I've re-bought a few eyepieces that I used to own and enjoy.

In almost all cases they did not prove so good the 2nd time around so I've learned a lesson now

 

[Dippy]

8 minutes ago, John said:

Over the past few years I've re-bought a few eyepieces that I used to own and enjoy.

In almost all cases they did not prove so good the 2nd time around so I've learned a lesson now

 

John, would you mind if I ask what eyepieces they were?

[JeremyS]

34 minutes ago, John said:

Over the past few years I've re-bought a few eyepieces that I used to own and enjoy.

In almost all cases they did not prove so good the 2nd time around so I've learned a lesson now

 

That’s actually very reassuring John. Thank you!

[jetstream]

13 hours ago, JeremyS said:

Anyway: what's missing?

Fantastic set!

I must say that the Docter 12.5mm UWA is a nice addition to any set.