Both “vtornado” and “droid” raise excellent points. An eyepiece in the 25 mm range would probably be your most used high power ocular for lunar and planetary observation with elementary school age students when using a C14 telescope. Depending on the average seeing conditions at your locatio...
New eyepiece set - posted in Eyepieces: Just ordered the Orion Expanse Eyepiece set consisting of the 6mm, 9mm, 15mm and a 20mm. Probably could have kept using the lenses that came with my telescope, which was a 9mm and 25mm, but wanted something with a
James Webb Space Telescope Posts:19,210 Joined:14 Oct 2011 Posted26 November 2024 - 01:32 PM You have plenty of eyepieces. It is just a question of if you want to keep things portable for travel. The T6 Naglers are pretty portable. Maybe those and a Panoptic for low power? photomagi...
swapping eyepieces takes a few seconds.. This is 30mm APM 70 degree, the 22 mm Panoptic, the 16mm T-5 and the 13mm-3.5mm Naglers, the 2X TV Barlow is in the tray. That covers just about every possible magnification/
Understanding Telescope Eyepieces https://opticsaide.c...-for-telescope/ My habit is to try and maximize the FOV of each of my scopes. In my 1.25" focusers, that is a 32 mm Plossl. In my 2" focusers that is a 38 mm/70 degree Agena Astro/Orion Q70 eyepiece. In the 12" Dob it...
Lots of ways to go here. I don't own any of the XWAs. I have set of Naglers 31mm, 16mm, 13mm, 11mm, 9mm, 7mm, 5mm, and 3.5mm. I also have four Ethos eyepieces, the 21mm, 13mm, 10 mm and 8 mm. With my Dobs, I use a Paracorr 2. ...
I wish someone could/would grind for me a 7" f-8 mirror. I think that would make for an interesting and useful size of telescope. In reality, I'll most likely simply get another 8" f/7 Dob to compliment my TV85 in the near future. ...