Posts Made By: Dan Smith

Need help identifying this eyepiece, if it was part of a telescope package when first sold, history, etc. Thanks!

For 1.25" eyepieces, the TeleVue 24mm Panoptic and 9mm Nagler T6. With your TV Barlow, that also gives 12mm and 4.5mm. They have the additional benefit of being parfocal.

I got back into the hobby in 1984 using a Coulter 10.1" f/4.5 Odyssey Compact which had a 1.25" focuser. For years, I used the TeleVue equivalents of that time period: 24mm Wide Field and 9mm Nagler Type 1. They worked for virtually all scenarios.

If you have a 2" focuser, consider adding the 35mm Panoptic for extremely large objects, e.g. the Pleiades and Veil Nebula.

Now is a great time to buy new or used.