Posts Made By: Kurt Endres

Steve Mathis said:

Hello, all.

Here is a montage of 5 images taken with my Nikon D-70 and an 18 mm lens. This was taken in Black Mesa State Park in the Oklahoma panhandle. A single inextingushable sodium vapor light illuminates the landscape at both ends of the nearly 180° span of the image. Thanks for looking.

Steve

christopher hornung said:

OK. I'm going to be a pain and put this kind of question to the forum. With my limited experience making this kinda of choice is very difficult. Here's the story the weekend after Thanksgiving me and a couple of friends have a tirp planned to Cherry Springs State Park in Pennsylvania. This will be for all of us our first true look ever at a dark sky. Basically it's the closest black spot on the light pollution map to Long Island New York. So I'm thinking of treating myself to my first high quality eyepiece (300-400 range) I mostly go for deepspace objects and Nebula, but when the planets are up I always take a look. I wear glasses but I find with the Plossls I'm always taking them off and it's no big deal and with the new JMI coming it's easy for another user to refocus.

This is what I have:

LXD75 10" Schmidt-Newt w/UHTC (f/4) Focal lenght 1012mm
Meade 4000 series Plossl eyepiece set
New EV1NM coming from JMI.
2x and 3x Televue Barlow

The eyepieces are OK but from what I've been told this kind of fast scope really does not like Plossl eyepieces.

So what would you recommend? What would be ideal for this kind of fast scope and my budget range?

Thanks Chris

Dmitri Kulginov said:

Will 4mm Ortho (volcano top) work well in a binoviewer, or is the eye relief too tight? (It doesn't bother me with one eye.)

Dmitri