A family of eyepieces

[mdstuart]

On the left is baby eyepiece, then there is son eyepeice and on the right mummy eyepeice and of course DADDY eyepiece.

Mark

[Doc]

A nice family Mark. Whats the large one?

[mdstuart]

Its a GSO 30mm superview and it lives up to its name with a FOV off about 2 degrees so from Vega to the double double..

Mark

[Taff]

Thats a nice family you have got Mark.What size EPS is Daddy.Mark

[mdstuart]

Tff its 30mm...70deg FOV, stars are distorted at the edges in my F5 but hey it was £45.

[bish]

The one on the right is about the same size as my scope!

[The Warthog]

How do they like their porridge?

[Rusty Strings]

Would you see exoplanets in the Goldilocks zone with them?

Sorry couldn't resist.

John

[mdstuart]

All very good...Well mummy eyepeice tunrs out to be too much for my fast scope! Seagulls at the edges so I have to think again.

[haitch]

All very good...Well mummy eyepeice tunrs out to be too much for my fast scope! Seagulls at the edges so I have to think again.

Is she one of those 80 degree 15mm Moonfish/Moonfish clones?

I was thinking of getting one of those for my f4.5 as the 30mm didn't behave as badly as expected but I guess I might think again.

[mdstuart]

Yes I found the 15mm was actually worse at the edges. So much so you could focus at the centre and then refocus the edges!

So I have returned it and perhaps now I will look for a super plossl 15mm instead of good quality...

[haitch]

Just a shame the scopes most in need of a wide field (Dobs - push and drift) are the ones least suited to them (Fast - loads of coma visible).

I find a 15mm 52 degree super plossl isn't too bad to track with but anything with a smaller field start to get annoying to use.

I guess I'll have to start saving up for some Naglers for the shorter focal lengths (or whack them on the credit card while the other half has her back turned )

[The Warthog]

You don't need to go to Naglers to get a decent wide-field view. My Antares Speers-WALERs are very good, and there are lots of other decent WA eps out there. Unfortunately, you do have to spend a little more to avoid seeing seagulls at the edge.