"ENOUGH" EYEPIECES?Posted By John Wilson |
Hi Larry.
I'm mostly a Moon/planet/double star observer and I tend to use longer focus scopes of different designs in the f/8 to f/20 range. With any scope I use, I aim for exit pupils of about 2mm, 1.2, .83, and maybe .5 or so (the last maybe with a barlow). Then I try to have a longer focus eyepiece for object finding and wider fields (right now that's a 40mm VernonScope Erfle with a 45mm field stop diameter). So I guess "enough" for me would be those 5 eyepieces. (Not that it isn't fun to try others!!)
Cheers,
John
I'm mostly a Moon/planet/double star observer and I tend to use longer focus scopes of different designs in the f/8 to f/20 range. With any scope I use, I aim for exit pupils of about 2mm, 1.2, .83, and maybe .5 or so (the last maybe with a barlow). Then I try to have a longer focus eyepiece for object finding and wider fields (right now that's a 40mm VernonScope Erfle with a 45mm field stop diameter). So I guess "enough" for me would be those 5 eyepieces. (Not that it isn't fun to try others!!)
Cheers,
John