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Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 12:45
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Subject: [APML] Up-Scale
eyepieces
Though this is a list on astrophotography, we have to frame up our
pictures and glimpse the telescopic sky scene before putting in the
inevitable CCD autoguider! I suspect that these moments of looking at the
stars while out trying to photograph the stars are among the most
pleasurable of all for us in this hobby. In this regard, what eyepieces
serve the best?
In particular, on this question, one can spend quite a lot on quality
occulars. At the recommendation of Jon Kolb I purchased a Takahashi 5 mm
focal length occular with LED-illuminated reticle for guiding purposes. This
was expensive!! But it's worth it: the occular has excellent resulution to
the edge of the field, good eye relief and fine mechanical quality
throughout, especially in the engraving of the reticle.
Nagler-type eyepieces are judged to be good quality, so I hear, and
those that have attempted to copy Nagler eyepieces have sometimes fallen on
their faces, so I hear from the grapevine.
Do any of you have eyepieces that you are especially fond of?
Glenn Shaw