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Originally Posted by va1erian
Anyway, I must confess of my foolishness -- I have placed an order for the AG 40 mm Plossl for $25. Now I am thinking that this is a waste of money.
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Not foolish. Compulsive maybe,
Like Brian said, you won't be disappointed. You will learn a lot from having it. I for one am now very curious on how you find using it!!! I am interested knowing how the eye relief on it is - eye relief is the distance you need to put your eye from the eyepiece to see comfortably through it. I have a 55mm plossl, and to see into it you need to put your eye some 2.5cm from the eye lens! Normally with plossls, the longer the focal length, the further away you put your eye. Conversely, the shorter the focal length, the closer you need to put your eye. With a 6mm plossl, you practically need to put your eyeball on the eye lens to look through the pin hole sized lens. If you are interested in shorter focal length eyepieces, there are other eyepiece designs that are newer than plossls and have a large eye lens and do not require you to put your eyeball on the eyelens to look into them, have a little wider AFOV and only cost a little more than plossls, but they are a far superior eyepiece. I'll post info about them if you like. I won't do so now as it is not what the thread is concerned with.
It could well be that you love this 40mm plossl. It could also be one eyepiece in your kit that novice telescope users find very easy to use. I've got a small set of eyepieces that I keep just for novices to use, say at an outreach night at a school. While these are modest pieces, such eyepieces are much more valuable to me for novices to use than hyper-expensive, whizz-bang-wow eyepieces that can require a bit of getting used to. I also don't mind these eyepieces getting soiled by finger prints, eyelash goo, and whatever muck is going around...
Mind you, that 55mm plossl I have, that one is NOT in the novice kit!!!! That one is a very special piece.
Anyway, please post your thoughts on that 40mm plossl when you finally get to use it!!!
