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Filling the gaps

Started by bkovacs, 10/25/2005 03:45PM
Posted 10/25/2005 03:45PM Opening Post
I own a Celestron 9.25 ASGT, and have a 25mmE-Lux,40mmE-Lux,and a 10mm Ultima. Which eyepieces would you recommend to fill the gaps. Considering both 1.25 and 2 inch. I have heard good things about Radians, Meade 5000, etc. Want to have more of a selection. Like looking at planets, galaxies and nebulas. smile
Posted 10/25/2005 04:31PM #1
Hi Robert,
That is a tough question without a few more facts. How much are you wanting to spend? Do you require a wide FOV or would a smaller FOV be OK with the tracking your scope provides.
Wide FOV EPs are the most expensive. There are many that will work with the slower SCT quite well. In fact, the good thing is that most EPs will work well with the SCT. smile
Radians are good, Panoptics are nice, Naglers are great too and so are Pentax and Meade UWA EPs.
UO Orthos are crisp, but lack eye relief if that is important to you because of glasses.
But OK, I will add a couple that would help and can be found for a reasonable price.
Televue 32mm Plossl (73x + .68°) FOV will have a better look than the E-Lux EPs and as large a FOV as is possible in a 1.25" EP. I have the 32mm E-Lux that I added a cross hair to and use it as a finder EP, but the quality is not that great. The TV is much better.
Meade 14mm UWA will give (167x + .5° FOV) for DSO and Nebulas. Great EP with a wonderful view and excellent on Nebula and Galaxies.
This would give you 59x, 73x, 93x, 167x and 234x.
If you wanted more power than that then maybe a 7mm Nagler T-6 (335x + .25°) FOV or a Pentax XL 7mm (335x + .19° FOV) OR about 36x per inch. I doubt that you will ever use more power than that and will most likely not use that much power that ofter unless you live where seeing is excellent.

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Posted 10/25/2005 09:42PM | Edited 10/25/2005 09:45PM #2
Hi Robert, grin I purchased a eyepiece earlier this year,it is made in Japan by Kokusai-Kohki and known as a widescan there are 4 models 2" 30mm, 1-1/4" 20mm,16mm,13mm. They all have an 84Degree F.O.V..It has a sweet spot that covers about 2/3 of the T.F.O.V. On my Unitron 4" f15 refractor the slight degradation on the last third doesn't affect the image. On a faster scope this would be more noticeable, but would be acceptable. They are about half the price of the Nagler Eyepieces wink Cheers,John grin





Robert Kovacs said:

I own a Celestron 9.25 ASGT, and have a 25mmE-Lux,40mmE-Lux,and a 10mm Ultima. Which eyepieces would you recommend to fill the gaps. Considering both 1.25 and 2 inch. I have heard good things about Radians, Meade 5000, etc. Want to have more of a selection. Like looking at planets, galaxies and nebulas. smile
Posted 10/26/2005 12:04AM #3
When I'm using my C9.25 I tend to use a 19mm panoptic for deep sky objects (compact gallaxies and planetary nebulae) Unless the seeing is really terrible I generally will start with a 15mm Televue plossl for the planets, if the seeing is good enough I'll switch to a 12.5mm University Optics ortho, then my Pentax XW 10mm. I'd say go for good Plossl or ortho in the 14/15mm range then see about a widefield in the 18 to 24mm range.

Joplin
Posted 10/26/2005 05:17AM #4
Robert,
I started out with an 8" SCT.
My favorite EP's, until I got into Naglers were:
14mm UWA (Series 4000)
19mm Panoptic
27mm Panoptic
Just some ideas...
Linton