Rob, I've found that everyone has their favorites, and finding a consensus might be rather difficult! But I'll weigh in my 2 cents, and let others weigh in as well. On my old 6-inch Dynascope, my favorite and most used eyepiece is an old 20mm Erfle. On the 16-inch, the one that is in the focuser probably 90% of the time is my 22mm Nagler -- I LOVE that eyepiece; worth every penny my wife paid for it! ;-) I also use and enjoy (on the 16) a 35mm Panoptic for wide-field stuff (found a cheap used one), and for higher magnifications 13mm and 8mm TV ploessls, though if I could afford them I would like to own a few more Naglers and/or Radians (I've borrowed the 9mm and 13mm Naglers, old and new, and several of the Radians, and love the way they perform). At Wolf Creek Saturday, I had a chance to look through Lowell's 20-inch obsession, and he swears by his Pentax eyepieces. I confess the view of the Andromeda galaxy trio was most impressive in that 40mm Pentax. But I also remember directly comparing the 22 Panoptic with a 21mm Pentax one night in Hobble Creek with Debbie's 15-inch Obsession, and found the Panoptic view better, in my opinion. Lowell will argue otherwise, and said he sold all of his TV eyepieces when he discovered the Pentax line. Everyone's eyes and preferences are different... Chuck Hards, our resident ATM guru, doesn't favor these "glass sandwiches" so much (though he does like the TV Panoptics, just thinks all of them are way over-priced, which they are!), and has many of the University Optics eyepieces (the whole line of Koenigs for example), and prefers Orthoscopics for high power planetary work ("less glass is better"). (Chuck and Lowell, sorry if I misquoted you...) Don't know if that helps or not, -Rich --- Rob Ratkowski <ratkwski@maui.net> wrote:
Hi Rich
Has anyone ever asked what an ideal set (FL, brand, type,??) of eyepieces would be and why?? I guess I'm asking to see what you all use the most and why they are useful. I have TV's of 55,40,26,21,17 and 10.5mm, 2.5X Barlow, a Meade 32mm 2" and a Celestron Ultima 30mm. Still looking for a 5mm TV Radian ............. Would this be called a survey w/ comments??
Aloha Rob
PS What do you use?? Which is your most used EP??
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