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[jglover]

The big brown truck arrived today and left a little black box.....a quite expensive little back box! Inside was my brnad new to me, Televue 13mm T6 Nagler.

The ED80 is cooling on the back deck as we speak!

;D

So, now I figure my basic EP collection is complete, a 24mm Panoptic, the 13mm and 9mm T6 Nagler and a 2.5x Powermate. Of course, I'm broke now and will be eating Ramen noodles till the tax refund gets here!! LOL

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

LOL...Ramen Noodles......lol ;D

The same Ramen noodles by Maruchan?

John,

Is the 24mm Pan a wide field, it seems to this eye that you might be missing a low powered wide-field ep...no?

Congrats on the new purchase...I like the brown delivery truck.

[jglover]

Chicago said:

Is the 24mm Pan a wide field, it seems to this eye that you might be missing a low powered wide-field ep...no?

The 24mm Panoptic is a wide field eyepiece. It has a 68 degree view, not quite the 82 degrees of a Nagler, but not quite the same price either. Still, according to Televue, the 24Pan deliver the widest field of view possible in a 1.25" scope. The 16mm Type 5 Nagler also delivers the same field of view but with more magnifcation in a 1.25" EP.

Still, I'd like to get something wider, either the 31mm Nagler or the 35mm Panoptic. Either one of those in my ED80 would give me about a 4 degree actual field of view on the EP.....it's just if I buy one of those, I'd be replacing those Ramen noodles with crackers!

But, I've also got a 30mm GSO Superview, a 70 degree, 2" EP, it is just such a big, heavy monster!