40 mm wide field eyepiece

[John]

1 hour ago, Deadlake said:

Is the Stellarvue a clone of the XWA design, just a baffle and a steel tube on the bottom? Shame not available outside of US.

Do you mean the Stellarvue Optimus 100 ?

https://www.stellarvue.com/100-110-degree-optimus-eyepieces/

If so, they are the same basically as the APM XWA's I believe.

 

[Don Pensack]

On 27/02/2021 at 00:13, Deadlake said:

Is the Stellarvue a clone of the XWA design, just a baffle and a steel tube on the bottom? Shame not available outside of US.

Stellarvue differences:

--stainless steel lower barrel

--metal focal length badge

--ozone and UV-resistant rubber in the eyecup and gripper

--slightly different focal lengths claimed.  The APM 5mm is a 4.77mm according to the factory specs, so Stellarvue's 4.7mm is closer than APM's 5mm.

Stellarvue says 3.6mm, APM says 3.5mm.  I'd put money on it being 3.55mm.  LOL.

Stellarvue says 13.5mm, while APM says 13mm.  That is odd, but they are the same, so I don't know which is accurate or if the truth lies between.

In my dob, that's a difference of 5x, which is unnoticeable, and even less so in shorter focal lengths.

[Louis D]

On 20/02/2021 at 11:10, Deadlake said:

@jetstream Gerry told me similar to Nagler 31 mm but lighter (Sure I’ll get corrected if wrong model) but lighter and not much difference. Hence I went with the APM, I don’t have Gerry’s dark skies.

Back to OP's original query, have you received your 30mm APM UFF?

[Deadlake]

8 hours ago, Louis D said:

Back to OP's original query, have you received your 30mm APM UFF?

Waiting on APM’s huge order to arrive, ETA is mid March.

Edited March 1, 2021 by Deadlake

[Voyager 3]

On 01/03/2021 at 05:32, Louis D said:

Back to OP's original query, have you received your 30mm APM UFF?

Now ? 

[Deadlake]

ETA for delivery of EP’s from KUO is end of April.

[Voyager 3]

I expected this you know . Ordering an eyepiece and waiting is worse than infected with CoViD 19 .

[amaury]

5 hours ago, Deadlake said:

ETA for delivery of EP’s from KUO is end of April.

Where did you buy from @Deadlake? Astrograph?

[Deadlake]

On 13/04/2021 at 13:50, amaury said:

Where did you buy from @Deadlake? Astrograph?

Yes Astrograph. Checked e-mail, Baader is end of April, APM is listed as late....

[Deadlake]

On 15/04/2021 at 07:23, Deadlake said:

Yes Astrograph. Checked e-mail, Baader is end of April, APM is listed as late....

Have received all APM EP’s with the exception of the 20 mm XWA which is not obtainable unless someone else knows better.

Just been out and used a 24 mm UFF, a miricle of an EP. Managed to bag the last one in the shipment. No change there on availability.
 

Will have to wait for it to be proper dark before I can fully evaluate it.