Eyepieces - Less glass is more

[stevecoe]

Hello there;

Could one of the folks saying that they see a difference in viewing DSOs with a "simpler" eyepiece provide a precise observation. Tell me a faint galaxy or PN that you can see with an ortho that youi cannot see with a wide field modern eyepiece, please.

As someone said, this is a religious discussion and nothing is more personal than eyepieces. I have not seen any of the new and expensive eyepieces that provide a lot more detail than my three Panoptics and a complete set of Meade 4000 UWA's. But, that is just me.

Thanks;
Steve Coe

[FaintFuzzies]

Hello there;

Could one of the folks saying that they see a difference in viewing DSOs with a "simpler" eyepiece provide a precise observation. Tell me a faint galaxy or PN that you can see with an ortho that youi cannot see with a wide field modern eyepiece, please.

As someone said, this is a religious discussion and nothing is more personal than eyepieces. I have not seen any of the new and expensive eyepieces that provide a lot more detail than my three Panoptics and a complete set of Meade 4000 UWA's. But, that is just me.

Thanks;
Steve Coe

Hi Steve,

Take a look at my page - scroll nearly all the way to the bottom. Look for the section titled "Going DEEP with simple eyepieces"
http://faintfuzzies.com/ObservingAids.html

If you are looking for something that is visible in a low glass count eyepiece versus an complex eyepiece. A recent example is Burbridge's chain with my friend's 22" reflector. The component I'm talking about is component D, MCG-4-3-12
http://www.astronomy-mall.com/Advent...e/burbidge.htm

And my observing report (scroll about 2/3 of the way down). This observation was confirmed Shneor, the owner of the 22". We used the 6mm ZAO-II. The other eyepiece we tried was the 6mm Ethos.
http://faintfuzzies.com/OR-Oct282011-SR.html


In regards of seeing the difference - it is mostly threshold objects or faint details where the difference is most obvious. When looking at eye candy or relatively bright objects, I could not see any obvious difference between the Ethos, Naglers, Panoptics, Delos, etc...