How many eyepieces do you own? - Page 3

sheeny (Al) · #41 14-02-2007, 04:05 PM

I voted 8:
4mm Plossl (doesn't get used)
6mm plossl (rarely gets used)
9mm plossl
10mm guiding eyepiece (often used...damn, I forgot to count this one!

)
15mm plossl
25mm plossl
32mm plossl
20mm Kellner (came with the PST)
All 1 1/4" EPs... so I guess that's "nine that is known as eight EPs"

.

I didn't count my barlows:
2x barlow
2.5x powermate
3 x barlow

nor my 0.63 focal reducer.

How embarrassment!! There are 3 type of people in this world you know... those who can count and those who can't!

Al.

PS... and my 13mm Nagler Type 6 (which I use a lot).

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #42 14-02-2007, 04:41 PM

11 all up at the moment.
All of them of average quality. One day I'll treat myself to something nice.
Still have plenty of gaps to fill.

4mm x2
6.5mm
10mm
12mm
12.5mm
20mm
25mm
26mm 2"
30mm
40mm

Ric · #43 14-02-2007, 04:45 PM

I have 6, but that is spread over two scopes though.

Cheers

rogerg (Roger) · #44 14-02-2007, 05:40 PM

I voted 5:
Meade Series 4000 26mm
Meade Series 4000 15mm
Meade Series 4000 40mm
Celestron Ultima 6mm
Televue Panoptic 22mm

However, I only use one:
Televue Panoptic 22mm

I wish I had a 7 - 9mm Meade wide field or Nagler to complement the 22mm Panoptic. Just starting to think about trying to find one

ispom · #45 14-02-2007, 06:45 PM

2 for my binocular approach,
one for high magnifaication and one wide angel

I can not get, why anyone must have so many eyepieces....

Ric · #46 14-02-2007, 09:25 PM

Hi Ispom, I think it becomes an obsession after a while. It's an EP for all occasions.

Cheers

Gargoyle_Steve (Steve) · #47 15-02-2007, 01:51 AM

I voted "10" ep's, but just realised I have 11 - and al of these have been aquired in less than 11 months since I bought my first scope!

4 ep's came with my 10" dob - 4mm, 9mm, 15mm and 25mm plossl's
(2 are GSO's, 2 are Series 500's) I bought another 25mm plossl to feed the pair of them into my binoviewer - this is the extra ep that I forgot to count.

I also have a 9mm and a 25mm Meade "MA"s (whatever that means exxactly). These came with my ETX-70.

Then I have the 4 ep's that I actually chose to own, and purchased separately. These are the ones that get pretty much all the use:
8mm Orion Stratus
13 & 17mm Baader Hyperion
30mm 80° Andrews 2"

I do have the Saxon binoviewer as mentioned above, and somehow have accumulated 3 barlows as well.

I think I have too many optical "bits and pieces" lol ...... garage sale coming up!

(Edit: Actually there was also a GSO 32mm wide angle that was included when I got the 12" dob, making a brief total of 12 ep's, but then I threw the 32mm in with my 10" dob when I sold it, as well as the 9 and 15mm plossls that had come with it - so total remaining at present is 9 ep's)

JimmyH155 · #48 15-02-2007, 03:52 PM

I have far too many - 13 in total
20mm Celestron
10mm Celestron
26mm Meade 4000 plossl
12.7 mm Meade 4000 plossl
9.5 mm Meade 4000 plossl
6.? mm Meade plossl
6mm bintel plossl
26 mm Meade QX super wide angle
40mm Meade 3000 plossl (useless)
7mm ortho
18mm ortho
13mm Hyperion
8 mm Hyperion
The most used favourites are the 2 Hyperions, 26mm Meade 4000 plossl, 18mm ortho and my beaut "Cluster buster" the Meade wide angle QX.

Sonia · #49 16-02-2007, 01:43 AM

I have 8...

26
25
20
10
H12
SR4
2
and a 3x barlow

beren · #50 16-02-2007, 11:55 PM

14

I use one {22} all the time, two others most of the time {9mm,32mm} and the rest... hmm... very little time at all

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #51 17-02-2007, 01:19 AM

1.25"
6.5mm Series 500 (junk, used as a dust cap)

25mm Series 500 (junk, unused)

9mm GSO Plossl (used regularly)

15mm GSO Plossl (used moderately)

25mm GSO Plossl (used regularly)

25mm WA (used in guidescope for visual)

7mm Pentax XW7 (used very regularly)

2x Barlow

2"
30mm GSO Superview (used moderately)

32mm Unitron Erfle WA (used regularly)

18mm SWA Konig XL (used sparingly)

Focal Reducer

2X Barlow

Plus some .965" & 1.25" EP's I gave to my boys, and some 1.25" EP's I gave to the SVAA.

LX200 · #52 16-04-2007, 02:30 PM

Mmmmmmm lets see

6.4 Plössl for UFO patrol

all up 10 + 2xbarlow = 20

RB (Andrew) · #53 16-04-2007, 02:42 PM

Put it this way......I don't have enough telescopes to put them all in !

gaa_ian (Ian) · #54 16-04-2007, 11:49 PM

Well I only have 6 Eyepiece myself, but have access to quite a few more though our club !
I have a grant application in for some Naglers too

cahullian · #55 17-04-2007, 02:58 AM

I'm in single figures and none of them are top of the range.

Gazz

spacezebra (Petra) · #56 17-04-2007, 07:39 PM

Hey, I could always use some more...

Cheers Petra

anthony2302749 · #57 17-04-2007, 08:30 PM

I was talking to a fellow amateur the other day about how many EP I have and I decides to add up the $. After $3500 I thought it was a good time to stop counting.

Kal (Andrew) · #58 17-04-2007, 08:47 PM

5 eyepieces, two of them being Meade 26mm plossls that came with the scopes.

The others are a 9mm nagler, 11mm TV plossl, 15mm Panoptic. I'm going to add a 24mm Panoptic to that mix soon

rapidfire · #59 18-04-2007, 08:16 PM

I just bought myself some Meade series 4000 super plossl's, a 32mm and a 9.7mm. These are pretty nice EP's. Before these I was using the three EP's that came with my Tasco Newt. 4mm, 12.5mm and a 20mm. They are fairly average EPs now I have played around with the meade's altho I still use the 20mm as a finder.
I dont have a barlow yet, so thats something to look forward too in the near future. I have to say, Its a lot of fun. I bought myself a nice s/h ETX125 not long ago and playing with that has been very cool.... and now with some good EP's its cool all over again. My next trick will be to buy a webcam and strip it down to fit into the ETX. Altho I have to say the quality of the images taken by people on this message board nearly satisfies all my image needs. Theres some amazing people taking amazing snapshots of the skies hanging out here.

bluescope · #60 20-04-2007, 10:03 PM

Because I own 2 SkyWatcher Newts I have 2 sets of 10mm and 20mm Super Plossl eyepieces from them plus a 2x Barlow that came with the 10 " scope.

1 x Meade 26mm Series 4000 which I got with my Meade DSX90-AT. Very crisp, high contrast piece, good for projection photography.

A 9mm and 25mm SWLET that I got with my 180mm SkyWatcher Mak. Nice wide view. Some colour fringing but not too bad.

1x Celestron 4mm Plossl that I got for US$12 off eBay. Usable only on extra good seeing, still nights. In fact now that I have the Vixen LV4mm I don't use this piece at all.

Last but by no means least a Vixen LV4mm and a Vixen LV20mm. Nice eyepieces.

So I have eleven but only regularly use the Vixens and Barlow. Would like a 32mm or 40mm for the 180 Mak. Probably get another Vixen LV.

Sorry I forgot I just ordered a 12.5mm Orion Illuminated Reticle from Bintel today so that makes it an even dozen so far.