I have received my 31mm Nagler.........first impressions going by the size of the eyepiece box was they sent me a Telescope instead of the eyepiece......its huge.....
Its raining at the moment so I cant test the 31mm Nagler but I am just happy to look and feal it for the rest of the afternoon and possibly over the weekend....lol
My eyepiece collection is almost complete so I will post a pic or two..
My 2" collection starting with my Powermate 4x, Nagler 31mm, Meade 14mmUW and finaly my 17mm Nagler.
I purchased the 4 x for Imaging when I get around to it...yes I will be getting the 2x Powermate probably in the next month....2 x barlow is going.....
I will get Mark Hodson to do the review......he has the experience and he has also been stalking me......lol
Looks like I will have to find some more weights for the other end of the dob . Looking forward to testing Termi out. Nice to know the cause of the rain....thanks!!
So YOU'RE to blame. Andrew for that I think he has to pass it around for a couple of months until he's repentant. Jeeesss the amount of lousy weather we've been having the last couple of months. Now we know why!
Can't wait to get my hands on it.
Looks mighty impressive.
Have you put it down yet?
When the rain that you organised goes and you come out , I will try to get Graeme (Saturn%25) to bring out his 12"GSO Dob so we can see how it goes in an f5.
He's just around the corner from me so to speak.
We can also do a direct comparison against the Andrews 30mm as well.
I know , I can here it now , no contest , but it will be interesting.
Will have to make it a moonless night to get the best of the DSO's.
Iceman that's what I use my 4x PM for , imaging without having to resort to EP projection.
Do you want it for the first month, or should I take it ?
No need to put it in the post Tony - you know where we live so just drop it around at your earliest convinence - once we decide whose borrowing it first
Actually the first thing on my to buy list once the observatory is finished is a Nag 31mm.
I have always wanted one and the Andrews 30mm is a stop gap untill that day arrives.
I also want to add a couple of Radians to my collection and hope I can find one or two to try one day.
Any one got one out there ?
Mark
Oh great......Does that mean I have to provide my own security personal if I want to just come over for a visit.....
I can see it now....Mark the 31mm Nagler is over their inside the electric fence area with the 2 armed guards....just make sure you walk through the Metal detector first.....lol
Even though the 31mm Nagler is a nice eyepiece...dont they recommend a parracor for an F5 scope.
By all means Andrew, you first. When you're finished with it, bring it up and we'll try it out in the observatory first then I'll try it on my 8" for a month. Maybe David (westsky) would like a try after that
By that time Tony will be chastened enough not to buy anything more for a couple of months, so we can have some clear skies for a while
Paul it's no good to me, it won't fit into my camera adapter
I think I have forgotten how to use an EP it's been that long.
Looks good Tony can't wait to try it out
Thats an absolute monster, now I have a problem for you. You won't be able to use the EP until you get a decent weight set, to Counter balance the OTA. I got the Astro Engineering one from England (currently in France await the next move). If you don't you are going to put strain on your gears and clutch. Still I am sure one night of fiddling won't hurt, but not much more than that.
You can send it down to my place in about five days and I will test it out for you. LOL.
Great set mate. You went the 2" route I went the 1.25 route (cheaper) but still costs lots of money. Wish I had your wallet for a while. Congrats on the acquistions.
Yeah paul.......I already use a weight set and dont need to use them all for my 17mm Nagler.....the 31mm Nagler isn't much differnce in weight so it shouldn't be a problem...
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Andrew for that I think he has to pass it around for a couple of months until he's repentant. Jeeesss the amount of lousy weather we've been having the last couple of months. Now we know why! 
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