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Hi Mark,
Hope you don't mind that I highlight so obviously above, but I really want to draw attention to this.
Yes, eye placement is easy- by far the most comfortable IMO out of all my lenses. HOWEVER! And I made a point about this earlier (if anyone missed it). Terry & I had huge problems with eye placement on our first use. The second session left us scratching our heads with what the big fuss was. I just thought it was Terry and I. Well, I had Shelley over recently and on her first use of it, she couldn't get her eye placement working. And then I realized- I told her about the first light curse of this ep!
I just want to make sure that people aren't put off by their first use of this ep.
Oh yes and the blackness is incredible isn't it Mark.
The pitch black sky shown thru this ep is the first thing I noticed as a huge WOW moment. And then I threw it on 47Tuc and nearly passed out right then and there... Colored planetary nebulae are just the most awesome thru it as well- blue planetary etc. And as Terry said before, it's very good at picking up faint fuzzies.
Yes, I had a big chuckle when I saw your pic, where like ep twins!
I knew there was a 20 something Denk.out there and I believed your 24mm story. I've just had a look at their website. Okay so it's a 21mm they have, close enough.
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Hi Suzy,
No probs on highlighting that area in a quote!
I think I know as to WHY others have stated tricky eye placement. I tried on purpose to get my eye in on the 14m Denk REALLY CLOSE to the eye lens. upon doing that, the view blacks right out when you do get really close, which is quite easy to do because the lack of a sufficient eye guard, so my take on that is that some will get too close to the eye lens, experience blackouts and write the EP off.
I had good training in this regard because I used to own a 12mm Nagler Type 4 and the eye placement on that EP is very tricky.....so I gained experience in tricky eye placement issues with that.....and now other eyepieces are a walk in the park compared to that one! Yes, the blackness in that EP is indeed incredible! I just need some clear dark skies in order to really get it to shine.....I can't wait to get it out there!
Cheers and clear skies!!!
