Too Many Eyepieces?

Now first of all, what a silly statement, [COLOR="Red"]TOO MANY EYEPIECES[/COLOR]!
That is like saying too many dark and clear nights. 8) Or too many AP refractors, I mean, what kind of thinking is this!
I will not participate in this kind of dialog, why just the thought of it makes me want to go down and hug my EP cases.

I have sort of an odd assortment of eyepieces that I use most of the time. In order of most to least used it would be 13mm T6 nagler, 10mm Pentax XW, 30mm 1RPD UW, and 19mm Orion Ultrascan. I use my 2.5x powermate and Orion 2x shorty plus barlow quite a bit as well. Also have a 7mm Pentax XW on the way that will see plenty of use. Eyepieces I don't use that much would include a 3.8mm ultrascopic, 7mm/ 9mm/ 12.5mm orthos, and 9mm/ 18mm/ 30mm eyepieces that came with came with my Criterion RV6. Lately I've been using alt-az mounts a lot so the widefields are getting the most use of course.

Joplin

Alan, just about all of my eyepieces get used sooner or later, because I have them organized in to "sets" that I take out depending on what scope or targets I looking at. I have arranged my eyepieces into:

The short tube refractor set
The 4" apo set
The 8" Dobsonian set
The wide angle set
The deep space set
The planetary set
The 2" set
The binoviewer sets (A and B)
The travel set
The backup set
The spotting set

Now this may sound like a LOT of eyepieces. But many eyepieces are part of several sets, and can do a "quantum leap" so to speak, into another set. This creates two Quantum Uncertainty Principles. The first Quantum Eyepiece Uncertainty Principle means I cannot know where all my eyepieces are at any given time. The second Quantum Eyepiece Uncertainty Principle means I can know where an eyepiece is, or its focal length, but not both at the same time.

David E
(If I can ever find all of my eyepieces I can count them!)