How many have you got?

[Hans Joakim]

8 - the Pentax XWs (70 degree AFOV)!

Got the two grenades (30 and 40 mm) last, but find myself using them the most. Awesome for scanning the sky. The XW eye relief is also good for a glass wearer like myself.

[graham56]

41 trimmed a few

[Alan White]

Hmmm, best not dwell on how many.
But several cases exist.

[IB20]

31 with no pairs 🤔. 

[Louis D]

4 hours ago, JeremyS said:

5th amendment 🤐

Sorry.  As a Brit, you're not covered by it.  Time to fess up.

[Louis D]

5 hours ago, Peter Drew said:

Never counted them but must be in three figures.    🙂

Sounds like I've got some work to do.

[Louis D]

5 hours ago, Piero said:

Oh dear.. It's easier to think in terms of "how many cases do you have?"

8

[PatientObserver]

4 hours ago, Hans Joakim said:

8 - the Pentax XWs (70 degree AFOV)!

Got the two grenades (30 and 40 mm) last, but find myself using them the most. Awesome for scanning the sky. The XW eye relief is also good for a glass wearer like myself.

I most recently bought the Pentax XW 30. Makes scanning the sky so much easier. Might not have needed the finderscope afterall. Will likely get the 40 mm eventually, but I need to build up the astronomy savings account again.

[Sunshine]

6 and a 2.5x TV powermate which makes 12 😆

[Roy Challen]

6, but if if I'd kept every eyepiece I've ever owned, it would be well over 100😄

[JeremyS]

After a quick stock take. Surprisingly I only have 55.
Main ones are:

TV Ethos, 6

TV Nagler, 11

TV Apollo 11, 1

Tak LE, 11 (3 are duplicates)

Vixen HRs and other HP EPs, 10

Pentax XL, 6

A few one offs: Pentax XP 3.8, XW 40, TV NZ, TV Pan 35, APM SZ, Tak Erfle 28

[AstralFields]

Let's see

6 , 9 , 15 , 20 , 2" 26 , 32 , 40 , Zoom 7-21 , 10&25 Plossl that came with the scope (I should probably sell the 10)

10 in total, all of them budget EPs with 68-70 AFOV. Which is more than enough. 

The 40 , 26 and 15 get used 90% of the time.

I have no idea why people obsess so much about eyepieces. I'd rather invest 1000$ into an upgrade from my 8" to a 12" than buy 2 premium brand eyepieces.

[Frenchastro]

Officially or unofficially ? 🫣😅 

1/Rule number 1, never leave a trace on social networks or forums 

2/ Rule number 2, always deny 

 

[Giles_B]

13 hours ago, PatientObserver said:

I most recently bought the Pentax XW 30. Makes scanning the sky so much easier. Might not have needed the finderscope afterall. Will likely get the 40 mm eventually, but I need to build up the astronomy savings account again.

How do you build up an account? I started an astro savings account, but I keep spending it before gets into 3 figures!

[John]

2 hours ago, AstralFields said:

I have no idea why people obsess so much about eyepieces. I'd rather invest 1000$ into an upgrade from my 8" to a 12" than buy 2 premium brand eyepieces.

It is odd. The eyepiece is quite low down Richard Suiters "wobbly stack" of factors that impact the quality of the view we get and yet the eyepiece section of forums is often one of the busiest 🙄

 

 

[Frenchastro]

il y a 5 minutes, Jean a dit :

C'est étrange. L'oculaire est assez bas dans la "pile bancaire" de Richard Suiters de facteurs qui ont un impact sur la qualité de la vue que nous obtenons et pourtant la section oculaire des forums est souvent l'une des plus concernées  🙄

 

 

Fetishism, also known as the Gollum syndrome 🤣

[JeremyS]

3 hours ago, JeremyS said:

After a quick stock take. Surprisingly I only have 55.
Main ones are:

TV Ethos, 6

TV Nagler, 11

TV Apollo 11, 1

Tak LE, 11 (3 are duplicates)

Vixen HRs and other HP EPs, 10

Pentax XL, 6

A few one offs: Pentax XP 3.8, XW 40, TV NZ, TV Pan 35, APM SZ, Tak Erfle 28

Oops I forgot my Masuyummy 26mm, 86 deg EP sitting on my desk 😊

[dweller25]

19 hours ago, Franklin said:

Surely a typo?

I very much think he’s correct 👍

Edited July 21, 2023 by dweller25

[dweller25]

Hmmm lets see…

2 x 26mm Celestron Plossls circa 1985

2 x Tal 25mm Plossls

2 x Televue 20mm Plossls

2 x 18 Fujiyama 18mm Orthoscopics

2 x 15mm Vixen LV’s

2 x 12mm Pentax XF’s

2 x 10mm Vixen LV’s

1 x 15mm Tal Kellner

1 x 12.5mm KK volcano top Orthoscopic

1 x 7mm Pentax XW

1 x 5mm Pentax XW

Thats only 11 focal lengths 🤣👍

Edited July 21, 2023 by dweller25

[Elp]

24 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

Oops I forgot my Masuyummy 26mm, 86 deg EP sitting on my desk 😊

What does it taste like?

[Stu]

41 for me I think, although I may have missed some! Includes 5 Bino pairs. Not counting a few of the bundled skywatcher 25 and 10mm plossls

Full set of BGOs

3.5, 5, 7 and 10mm XWs

12.5 and 17.5mm Morpheus

17, 22 and 31mm Naglers

2 to 4, 3 to 6 nag Zooms plus Leica Zoom

12.5mm Docter

24mm Panoptic

3.4mm Vixen HR

TAL 6.3, 12.5 and 25mm Plossls

18, 12.5, 7 and 6mm  Circle V 0.965” Orthos

40mm Circle V Kellner

Pairs

40mm Celestron Omni

32mm TV Plossl

25mm Zeiss Ortho

20mm Vixen LW

10mm BCO

6mm BCO

Quite an eclectic mix! 24mm Pan, 25mm Orthos and zooms probably get most use, followed by the XWs and Nags when I do a longer session!

 

[Doc]

Here's my little collection of Clave' of Paris eyepieces, it doesn't show my new 5mm Clave so that is 12 eypieces in total.

 

 

 

Edited July 21, 2023 by Doc

[John]

56 minutes ago, Frenchastro said:

Fetishism, also known as the Gollum syndrome 🤣

As you can see from responses to this thread, there is none of that on here ! 🤪

[PatientObserver]

1 hour ago, Giles_B said:

How do you build up an account? I started an astro savings account, but I keep spending it before gets into 3 figures!

It helps to have "Patient" in one's username as a reminder.

[ollypenrice]

That I use... two.  I'm using a long FL scope at the moment. I'd bring out a third for more magnification if using a shorter FL scope.

So, not many - but they are good ones. I find too many EPs to be a distraction from what matters, which is really looking.

Olly