Aw, Chuck! This is going to cost me. I have wanted a 2" illuminated reticle eyepiece since I bought my StellarVue F-80 Finder. It has an adapter to take off the diagonal and go straight through with a helical focuser to a two inch eyepiece but I could never find the right eyepiece and this looks like it is the one. I spent most of the budget for this month on lens covers and my new Correct Image diagonal that arrived today but I will keep an eye on this eyepiece and hope you will keep us posted if you hear more. Steve
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:07:01 -0600 From: chuck.hards@gmail.com To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Utah-astronomy] 2" finder EP
One of my favortie "finders" is a home-made 70mm refractor built around a 320mm focal length lens purchased surplus from Apogee many years ago. Although a doublet, it exhibits almost no uncorrected color. I have used it with a 2" diagonal and 32mm eyepiece over the years, yielding a magnification of 10X and an exit pupil of 7mm, along with an incredible wide FOV.
I've use my UO 32mm Widescan with it; more recently my Celestron E-Lux 32mm, since I like to use the Widescan in the main telescope...but just today I ordered the new UO illuminated X-hair 32mm eyepiece:
http://www.universityoptics.com/2inch.html#ILLUM
Has anyone else used this eyepiece? I love Illuminated X-hairs, especially when I use my Pulseguide illuminator. Most standard illuminators are too bright. The Pulseguide allows perfect customization of both illumination and pulse duration.
TIA
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