Your biggest occular ?

[Ian Robinson]

Mine = a Parks 2" 50mm fl Plossyl , I spotted on Ebay last year.

Gives me stunning 23x views with the 10" newt (a coma corrector is a definite MUST at that power).

Long exposure ep projection of starfields and nebulae and galaxies now I have my Atlux and will soon have an autoguider sounds like the go soon.

[Zuts]

Mine is 35 mm Panoptic, gives me 17 by in my TV85 and a 4 degree field of view; pinpoint stars edge to edge. :)

Paul

[TrevorW]

The fixation of size in this forum is of concern and I do not wish too brag or be investigated by the Fed's

:lol::lol::D

[Robert_T]

yes, it is a concern, it's not size that counts it is how shiny it is:D

[Ian Robinson]

In astronomy .... size is everything .

My big plossyl is one heck of chunk of glass .... if wouldn't want to drop it on my toes , it would hurt!!!!!

[Starkler]

I get almost 4 degree fov with this combo

[Gargoyle_Steve]

Mine is a 30mm 80° 2" job, but I did see 60, 70 & 80mm 2" plossls advertised for sale not long ago (ebay I think) - I figure the 80mm plossl would be like looking down a piece of 50mm downpipe anyway!
:lol:

[AlexN]

Mine is same as Steve's above... Great EP for the price.. :)

[rider]

Mine is a 70 degree 40mm williams optics, I bought it to find objects easily, with the intention to then swap to EP's with more magnification, but the first thing that I found was that I liked looking through it better than my other eyepieces..

rider

[madtuna]

I bought one of the Andrews 30mm 80° when they were flogging them out the door for 70 odd dollars.
Damn impressive eye piece for it's price and probably one of my most used.




p.s. where the hell is the degree button on a keyboard? I had to copy and paste it off Gargoyle Steves post

[AlexN]

Press and hold the ALT key, and type on the keypad 0176

as seen here °

[TrevorW]

Typical in the old days when I was a lad they gave you help books that showed the alternative characters available from a combination of holding down the Ctrl, Shift and Alt keys.

If you Google you probably be able to get the list or


Do one of the following:

For Microsoft Windows XP, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Character Map.
For Microsoft Windows 2000 Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Character Map. Note If Character Map is not available, see Windows Help for information about how to install a Windows component.

In the Font list, click the font you want to use.
Click the special character you want. If you don't see the character you want, try clicking another font in the Font list.
Click Select, and then click Copy.
Switch to your document, and then place the insertion point where you want to paste the character.
Click Paste http://office.microsoft.com/global/images/default.aspx?AssetID=ZA060446821033 .
If the character looks different from the one you selected, select the character and apply the same font you selected in Character Map.°