[bytor666]

Wavy,

Totally true that there is no "perfect" eyepiece. There are eyepieces that will match certain types of scopes! As for the O-III and my 38mm Q70, I have used it and my O-III on the Veil and a few more targets. That eyepiece alone does wonders on both halves of the Veil with an O-III.

The drawings attached are not a work of art, but it gets the idea across as to what I saw with an O-III and my 38mm Orion Q70, and also two other objects I saw in that eyepiece. The filter was a 2" Celestron O-III, which has a narrow bandpass at 8.5nm. I have since sold that filter and obtained a 2" DGM Optics O-III, (15 nm bandpass), instead which I will be trying on the Veil again when summer comes.

Also, note the pics I took through this eyepiece of the moon and M-45 by just holding my camera against the eyecup of the eyepiece. If the edges were more corrected, this eyepiece would be all around excellent. Even though the 35mm Panoptic has a bit tricky eye placement, doesn't mean I wouldn't buy one! I have an observing friend who has one and I intend to keep on bugging him to try it out and one day I might pick one up because the correction is really nice in a fast scope.

Cheers,