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Darwin T
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I'm getting closer to the time I can order a CPC 1100. Now I'm trying to decide what eyepieces to buy. I saw these : Vixen Lanthanum LV Eyepieces at telescope.com. They have been discontinued and are on sale. Are these good quality?
I have an Edmund RKE 28mm and will have Celestron's 40mm, of course. I will mainly be doing planetary and lunar observing, but also like globular clusters. Probably not much deep sky stuff.
I also want a zoom eyepiece. Any recommendations? I mainly want this because I want to observe the I.S.S. I have the tracking software and it would be nice to have a lower power to line things up and then zoom in.
Thanks.
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Snickersnee
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Reged: 08/29/08
Posts: 19
Loc: California
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Zooms: The Nagler is great. The Zhumell is practical.
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Randy Roy
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Reged: 10/07/05
Posts: 383
Loc: Tennessee
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I have a box full of Naglers and Panoptics, but if pressed would have to say my Vixen LVWs are my favorite eyepieces to use with my C14. They hold their own optically at F11 and are easily the most comfortable eyepieces I have ever used in terms of eye placement, lack of blackouts, eye relief, etc.
Still, the TV eyepieces are outstanding in my fast newt and refractor. The 8-24 Hyperion zoom is, IMO, the king of the zooms when you factor in cost. It is excellent optically and very affordable. The TV zoom works well (I have one of these, too), but the Hyperion is superior in terms of FOV and contrast. The Nagler zooms are way too short on focal length to be useful with a C11.
Randy
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rboe
Numbfinger
Reged: 03/16/02
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Loc: Phx, AZ
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Depending on the seeing and the cluster but I find M13 for example, to be very nice in my 23mm Celestron Axiom - the old model. The 14mm Pentax XL is also a stunner. The 28mm RKE does very.
Unless you are completely seduced by the wide apparent field of view eye pieces and can afford them you can use just about any good eye piece in that scope and it will perform very well indeed. Your budget will like that.
I have the pentax zoom and some nights it is the only eye piece I'll use. Very useful for small objects and good for determining seeing limits.
At a dark sky site this scope does deep sky just fine so you may end up being a convert. Nothing like cruising around the Virgo Cluster and seeing galaxies like so many mosquito larve in a pond.
I'm not real familiar with the vixen line except by reputation which is very good. At this point I suspect they would be a good choice indeed.
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Ron
NS11GPS
Pronto
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15X70 Obies
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warf
professor emeritus
Reged: 10/25/04
Posts: 709
Loc: Wisconsin
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William Optics UWAN 28mm.... on a CPC or NS11 the views are awesome ... there are several reviews here on CN on this eyepiece. If you like globular clusters then this is the eyepiece of you.
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Marsh
Celestron NS 11 GPS, Denk Standard Binoviewer, Pair of Denk 21 EP, Denk PowerSwitch Diagonal, Denk PST Corrector, Coronado PST Double Stacked, WO ZS80 Anniversary,Celestron 15x70 Binoculars
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