Took the plunge! 7mm Pentax on its way!

[iceman (Mike)]

Got my 7mm Pentax today!

Looks great, built solid. Cloud tonight (of course). Can't wait to try it out!

[davidpretorius]

you beauty, raining here, so at least we are getting the bad weather out of the way.

so by the weekend, 7mm pentax and huge image scale on jupiter


YAYAY

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Once you get used to the eye relief, shorter ER eyepieces will bug you

Watch the buy/sell forum for a 14mm Meade UWA
Watch Mike end up with a set of Pentaxs

[iceman (Mike)]

haha not a chance

The ER on the 14mm Meade doesn't concern me at all - I don't need glasses and my eyesight (so far) is still pretty good, even though I stare at computer screens for 12+ hours a day.

[matt]

Good stuff, Mike. I'm sure you'll love it. Looking forward to your thoughts/comments.

I'm barely holding off purchasing one myself, so I'm expecting your comments will be the clincher.

That way I can blame you for further astro expenditure!

[cjmarsh81]

Iceman. I read a book the other day about eyestrain while reading computer screens. You need to set an alarm that goes off about every 7 minutes. When it goes off simply look up to the ceiling or out the window and allow your eyes to focus. Otherwise you could be doing damage.