janoskiss
27-08-2006, 01:41 PM
Antares Elite 5-element Plossls
Two 25mm eyepieces available in as new condition.
Excellent eyepieces for all types of telescopes.
Comfortable long eye relief.
52 degree FOV.
End caps, original packaging and winged rubber eyeguards included.
Effectively the same eyepiece as other highly regarded Japanese 5-element plossls, e.g., Celestron Ultima, Orion Ultrascopic, Parks Gold Series. As good as plossls get.
Very high contrast - excellent on deep sky.
The two of them would make a very comfortable pair for binoviewing for all types of objects (see below).
Note that one of the eyepieces has recessed the other has straight barrel, but they are optically identical, and perfectly parfocal.
Made in Japan.
For binoviewing this one pair can do it all (e.g., with Burgess binoviewer I have for sale here (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=12821)):
in Mak or SCT:
without OCA for deep sky
with 1.9x OCA for lunar and planetary viewing
with barlow for high powers when seeing is good (2x barlows magnify typically 2.5-2.8x when used in binoviewer)
in Newtonian or refractor:
with OCA for deep sky
with barlow for lunar and planetary viewing
with barlow and OCA for high powers in very good seeing
$90 each.
$160 for the pair.
$130 for the pair if you are also buying my binoviewer (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=12821). :eyepop:
Prices include regular postage in Australia.
Thanks for looking.
Two 25mm eyepieces available in as new condition.
Excellent eyepieces for all types of telescopes.
Comfortable long eye relief.
52 degree FOV.
End caps, original packaging and winged rubber eyeguards included.
Effectively the same eyepiece as other highly regarded Japanese 5-element plossls, e.g., Celestron Ultima, Orion Ultrascopic, Parks Gold Series. As good as plossls get.
Very high contrast - excellent on deep sky.
The two of them would make a very comfortable pair for binoviewing for all types of objects (see below).
Note that one of the eyepieces has recessed the other has straight barrel, but they are optically identical, and perfectly parfocal.
Made in Japan.
For binoviewing this one pair can do it all (e.g., with Burgess binoviewer I have for sale here (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=12821)):
in Mak or SCT:
without OCA for deep sky
with 1.9x OCA for lunar and planetary viewing
with barlow for high powers when seeing is good (2x barlows magnify typically 2.5-2.8x when used in binoviewer)
in Newtonian or refractor:
with OCA for deep sky
with barlow for lunar and planetary viewing
with barlow and OCA for high powers in very good seeing
$90 each.
$160 for the pair.
$130 for the pair if you are also buying my binoviewer (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=12821). :eyepop:
Prices include regular postage in Australia.
Thanks for looking.