Turret holder eyepiece

Hello,

Anyone have used a turret holder(takahashi,Borg,Intes..Tec)on your telescope? What experience you have? not is negative for the image?

Thanks,
Paulo

Paulo martin said:

Hello,

Anyone have used a turret holder(takahashi,Borg,Intes..Tec)on your telescope? What experience you have? not is negative for the image?

Thanks,
Paulo

Hi Paulo:

I have a TEC turret that I use when I am not in the mood to bino-view. As far as I can tell, the image is exactly the same high quality as with my Televue diagonal. The TEC turret is superbly designed and beautifully machined too. It is fun to use.

Jim

I started with a Siebert power mag wheel, which was good, but the one I got required a lot of refocusing in my C8, and did not have a straight through setting (and would have required huge refocusing if it did). Some of the power mag wheels are closer to parfocal and I might have changed mine, but I ran across a Celestron turret used. This has a prism diagonal and holds four 1 1/4 eyepieces, made by Vixen with decent quality. This setup is a joy to use with near parfocal eyepieces. One thing is that it will not hold a heavy eyepiece in place if it's not counterbalanced by another one of similar weight opposite. And it does not hold a 2" eyepiece, and four eyepieces was maybe not as many as I would like. To use the 2" eyepiece, I have set up my C8 with a 2" visual back and used either the turret with a 2" nose-piece or a 2" diagonal and my 2" eyepiece. This works very nicely.

I'd like one of the nicer turrets, but they are a bit pricey for me. Just recently however, I've purchased a Hyperion zoom and find it so good that I find myself just using it and the 2" eyepiece in the 2" diagonal. If I had a telescope that was good enough for the best eyepieces to make a difference I'd probably opt for one of the good turrets, maybe a 2" Van Slyke, yowee! I'd like a turret that holds one 2" and five 1 1/4" eyepieces myself.

Brad

Paulo martin said:

Hello,

Anyone have used a turret holder(takahashi,Borg,Intes..Tec)on your telescope? What experience you have? not is negative for the image?

Thanks,
Paulo