[Rodstar (Rod)]

Thanks for sharing my enthusiasm, folks!

I was not able to get to Bintel on the 24th in the end....between hosting a lunch at home and Bintel's closing time on Christmas Eve, it would have been too rushed.

Anyway, I am pleased to report that the Ethos now rests happily in my eyepiece collection, having been collected this afternoon from Bintel.

It is a huge piece of glass.

Here is a couple of pictures, the first shows the size of the Ethos next to a visual Paracorr, a 22mm Panoptic and a 7mm HD orthoscopic. It is hard to imagine how the Ethos could be made in a focal length much longer without ballooning out in size. The second shot shows the relative sizes of the top glass for each three aforementioned eyepieces.

Hopefully the weather will co-operate tonight, and I can report on its actual visual performance in the morrow.