Tamiji Homma
(Pooh-Bah)
07/04/09 01:47 PM
Re: Why aren't eyepieces lighter?

Quote:

Actually you raise another good point...why isn't there a predefined weight that all eyepieces are designed to?

If there was ONE weight, all scope assemblies could be set to balance on that one value and using a scope would be much simpler.




Because size/weight/shape of telescope/mount etc are vastly different as primary eyepiece design parameters (focal length, AFOV, eye relief, glass, cost, ...) are vastly different.

If you demand optical engineers "one size fits all or telescope balancing issue by eyepiece" type requirement as mandatory design parameter, I suspect you will be disappointing result of product in terms of optical quality, mechanical robustness, price etc.

I believe free to design anyway you want is much better solution so that we consumers can choose whatever our liking

If you sort my weight measurement in eyepiece focal length, it tells something: Some eyepiece weight is more than 10x than other with the same focal length.

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Partial list where it is interesting:
grams F/L model name
237.0 16.0 WO-UWAN
84.0 16.0 ZAO2
722.0 17.0 TV-Ethos
179.0 19.0 TV-Panoptic
358.0 20.0 Pentax-XW
678.0 22.0 TV-Nagler
68.0 23.0 SV-Plossl
298.0 24.0 Hyperion
81.0 25.0 Zeiss-Ortho
75.0 28.0 Siebert-UW
958.0 28.0 WO-UWAN
771.0 30.0 BW-Optik/Zeiss
291.0 30.0 TMB-Paragon
160.0 30.0 Tak-LE
354.0 31.0 Hyperion
308.0 32.0 Edmunds-RKE
175.0 32.0 TV-Plossl



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