Hi,
I should have mentioned that eyepieces that came with the scope are actually 12.5mm and 20mm, both 1.25” and both 70°
I already have Nagler 17mm and Pentax 10mm XW
Last night I finally took my new scope to dark sky. Unfortunately I never was there before and arrived when it was already a bit dark. Well, dark enough that I had to use my laser collimator. Usually my laser collimator gets it within 1mm accuracy and then collimation eyepiece or long Cheshire for final collimation.
One of the guys who was there looked through my 17mm Nagler and was really impressed with the view of Orion Nebula. He asked me do I have anything bigger than 17mm Nagler? I said; yea but it’s very cheap 31mm Bintel eyepiece that I bought long time ago or it came with Bintel 12” Dob I bought from them long time ago.
It was good in centre but everything else was a mess. He offered me to try his “Astromania” 30mm 80° eyepiece he got from Amazon for $200
WOW! I am 60 years old and he is 64 years old. I told him what I was told about exit pupil at my age and how my Nagler 17mm will be maximum I could use, he just laughed and said yes, I heard that too.
It’s like saying we all should have 120/80 blood pressure but do we?
I guess, it all depends what object you are looking at.
With my 17mm Nagler I simply can not see whole Orion or Eta Carinae nebula. With his 30mm 80° I could, and the view, which is of course personal thing is more pleasing for me for those two objects.
As Joe suggested above: Televue Ethos 21mm 100 deg would most likely be perfect eyepiece for me. But I don’t have it
I might look into it to get one, preferably I would like to look through one before I spend $1,769.00 for it!!
The views for other objects last night were very good and I was assured from those two gentlemen that optics are good. That was my main concerns considering other things about this scope that I had issues with.
GOTO was hit and miss. Sometimes you select an object and it’s within field of view in wide eyepiece and sometimes I had to look through finder and adjust a lot till I could see it. And then some objects are dead in the centre right away?!
All up, I am happy with the scope and finally can relax and start enjoying it more and think how the hell am I going to convince my wife that I need 21mm Ethos.
Thanks everyone!
Cheers
Bob