This is not an eyepiece case, this is an intervention!

[Ags]

I built a pretty wooden eyepiece case with slots for 12 eyepieces, and ever since then I have been thrashing about like a fish on a hook trying to fill it. Last night I snapped and bought some foam for the old eyepiece case and filled it with the eyepieces I really use.  There is no more room in the new case. I am DONE with buying eyepieces! (But see below).

These eyepieces are for use with f6 telescopes - a Zenithstar 66, a C6 (with reducer), and possibly a Megrez 88 / Long Perng 90 down the line. I have severe light pollution to deal with, so my widefield is the Explore Scientific 20mm / 68° giving a moderate 3mm exit pupil. The Speers WALER 13.4 mm / 82° provides low-medium magnification and a 2mm exit pupil, and the Explore Scientific 6.7mm / 82° provides high-medium magnification. The Speers WALER 4.9mm / 82° provides high magnification (~0.8mm exit pupil) and also ultra-high magnification when I screw in its extension tube, turning it into a 3.1mm / 82° eyepiece (~0.5mm exit pupil).

Two solar eyepieces are stored vertically - an NPL 30mm plossl and (when I find one) a SLV 25mm. For now an SLV 6mm is keeping the space warm. There is room under the filter box for another SLV... maybe the 20mm. No! No! I must resist!

The Speers WALERS seem to give the best corrected and easiest views, but I love the ergonomics of the more compact ES eyepieces.

Edited August 2, 2022 by Ags

[Zeta Reticulan]

 

I have a bino case a bit like that. It started off fairly straightforward. 

Several years later ... lol

 

 

 

 

[Ags]

Eyepieces seem to spread like mushrooms!

[Zeta Reticulan]

7 minutes ago, Ags said:

Eyepieces seem to spread like mushrooms!

I'm pretty sure I have eyepieces I've never actually used. They seemed like such a good idea at the time though. 

[Sunshine]

2 hours ago, Ags said:

I built a pretty wooden eyepiece case with slots for 12 eyepieces

You're fixing on fitting twelve eyepieces in there? 

Edited August 2, 2022 by Sunshine

[badhex]

How it started:

How it's going:

 

Now what do I do with this? 

Edited August 2, 2022 by badhex

[Ags]

34 minutes ago, Sunshine said:

You're fixing on fitting twelve eyepieces in there? 

No, the wooden case looked like this:

The eyepiece case I am using now was my 2011 case, which has until recently been a junk box. In the old days it contained these:

[Zeta Reticulan]

39 minutes ago, badhex said:

 

 

Now what do I do with this? 

Big bolt case? lol

[Ags]

My back to basics eyepiece case works out well in the field. It's easier to select the right eyepiece in the dark, and easier to keep track of the lens caps.

I am not entirely free of eyepiece acquisition syndrome. I still have a nagging thought that the Speers WALER 13.4 might be better replaced by an ES11 and Nirvana 16, or that could squeeze in a couple more SLVs. But I am hopeful for a full recovery!

Edited August 6, 2022 by Ags

[badhex]

1 hour ago, Ags said:

 I am hopeful for a full recovery!

Sounds like you made it as far as Step 4 - making a searching and fearless inventory of your eyepiece collection. Only another 8 steps to go! 

Edited August 6, 2022 by badhex

[Ags]

What's Step 12? Buy a zoom and cut up the credit card?

Now I'm thinking I can get a zoom in there...