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Dear team,
I am a self confessed ocularphile.
Eyepieces are THE most important part of the system, the telescope is important but once you have a really good either custom engineered hand crafted Newtonian (locally made) plus a Superior fluorite refractor (no - ED doesn't cut the mustard) the difference is always going to be in the eyepieces.
I am a very active collector (40 years worth), and have the following:
Zeiss Jena Orthoscopic Abbe 1.25 inch (full set, no longer produced, the best eyepieces ever made)
Zeiss Jena Orthoscopic 1 inch (exceptional - 2 full sets, still available out of at least one local supplier)
Takahashi LE series - full set
Takahashi 1 inch Orthoscopics - full set, no longer manufactured
Masuyama - full set (the world's rarest eyepieces)
Clave 6mm
Clave 35mm 2 inch
All of the above I use regularly as they are all terrific, with the strong bias toward the Zeiss 1.25 and 1 inch Ortho's which are just superior to anything, but you all probably already know this
Plus:
William Optics Swan, Uwan & Spl - full set
University Optics 1.25 inch Orthoscopics - full set
TeleVue Naglers, Panoptics & Plossl's 66 pcs - I just collect these as I would not bother to look through them
Various Vixen, Japan Optical, Kohkusai Kohki, Tal, Intes, Intes Micro, TMB, Astro Physics, Baader, Royal, Goto, Celestron, Meade, Criterion (yes the original Criterion US eyepieces from 1960, full set), plus also a range of Watson & other brass antique eyepieces from the early 20th century and earlier
Total in excess of 370 pieces at this time, and adding all the time
Why - I like to be able to tell the difference between nearly every eyepiece ever made, thereby I buy everything and test them, both on my telescopes (please see my bio for what I use) plus also on the optical bench that I use at work (I am a metrologist, science of measurement).
Looking forward to feedback from other serious ocularphiles. Maybe someone has something I don't have that may interest me, I am always after additional reference grade gear
Clear skies to you all
Rgds,
Astromelb
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