Planetary Eyepiece

[smudgeball]

Hi all hope / know you'll help.

I'm really settling down to being a "non" imaging gazer interested in planetary observation.

With my scope I have a 25mm Plossl and 9mm Plossl (soon to have a 4mm Plossl from the for sale section...thanks)

I'm just interested to know what it really is about planetary eyepieces that sell them ?

Is it just eye relief ??

Could anyone give me a comparison on what a good planetary would do for my F10 scope or should I just be happy with my three eyepieces ?

Hope you can share some opinions.

Thanks as always

Neil

[Mr Spock]

With a f10 scope your 9mm Plössl will be fine. You'll find the 4mm too overpowered for a 6" scope and the eye relief will be very small.

[smudgeball]

Cheers,

I'm happy with the 9mm, just got the 4mm for the collection....... as you do

[BazMark]

I have the Skymax 127 (5") mak and I purchased a TS Planetary 6mm EP for high power, but it seldom gets used as the seeing is not not good enough most of the time (ESSEX UK). When it is good enough the 6mm gives a good account of itself. In hind sight I should have opted for a 7 or 8mm. A 6mm may work for you as your scope has another inch of aperture on mine.

[smudgeball]

Thanks BazMark

I seriously considered your scope when I was shopping for mine.

I finally got seduced by that extra inch !

Cheers for the comments

Neil

[spaceboy]

Tmb clones and BST explorers are really good eye pieces for the money and offer a better FOV than most plossl. 1.25" Eyepieces

[acey]

Could anyone give me a comparison on what a good planetary would do for my F10 scope or should I just be happy with my three eyepieces ?

I upgraded from the 9mm Plossl that came with my 8" f6 scope to an 8mm TeleVue Plossl and saw a huge difference - more detail, more colour, more contrast. Never felt any need to go to higher magnification than I got with that.

[smudgeball]

Thanks

Think I really need some time outside for comparison before splashing any more money.

A bit of consolidation with what I've got.

Don't know when the time outside will arrive ?

But thanks anyway

Neil

[RascalUK]

I'm sniffing around a planetary eyepieces as well at the mo

This guy Sky's the Limit offers a try before you buy on eyepieces - well you pay up front and if you decide an eyepiece isn't for you after he's sent a sample he refunds you.

I've just emailed him to see what he hs in in stock?

Has anybody bought from here previously?

[spaceboy]

Alan at STL is a top bloke and the fact that he dose a try before you buy is a testament to that. The only trouble is you may end up wanting to keep all the EP's

SPACEBOY

[LukeSkywatcher]

My 8mm Vixen NPL should be here tomorrow. I bought it because i want a good quality high mag EP.......but mainly because i'm working on the full set and already have 2 low mag Vixens.

[brianb]

I'm just interested to know what it really is about planetary eyepieces that sell them ?

To me: razor sharp edge to edge of an apparent field which needn't be large. Very high contrast. No colour cast.

Preferred: Zeiss or TMB monocentric (no longer manufactured and fetching totally silly prices on the 2nd hand market on the very rare occasions they come up). Baader Genuine Orthos are IMO as good as anything else on the market at the moment & you can buy a whole set of them for the price of just one Televue Ethos.