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CESDewar
GorillAstronomer
Reged: 01/16/05
Posts: 1812
Loc: Morganton, GA, USA
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Re: Saturn IIIs on the way!
06/28/08 09:14 PM
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Congratulations Rich - this was a smart purchase. These are absolutely wonderful binoculars with tack-sharp views and such a light weight. I can sit in my observing chair - reach out and pick up the mount and scope and move it - don't think I would like to try that with a 50lb BT-100 setup! I find the Bogen 475/503 setup to work very well provided that you are not often observing from windy locations - although there are very few attractive options to provide a substantially sturdier setup without some other compromises
The auxiliary finder scope is beautiful and I'm glad I got it, although I usually observe alone and use a GLP to position the scope in most cases. There are few dark sky objects that are outside of the reach of these binoculars under dark skies. As time goes on, I keep on coming back to these binoculars - they are probably my favorite observing instrument.
Yes, the dearth of eyepieces is a problem. I have the 54x EP's and I use them frequently. I would love to have some 80-90x EP's as the 150's are a bit too high (but still useful - how often can one say one has split the double-double, see Uranus as a disk, or seen Saturn's CD in a pair of binoculars!).
Perhaps you can join Wayne and me in trying to persuade Harry Siebert to produce a 1.25" to Miyauchi Adapter that includes an OCA - such an adapter would allow the use of standard 1.25" EP's and be a wonderful solution to this problem!
I do have a pair of 17mm Wide field EP's with StellarVue OCA's screwed into them - with some black electrical tape to thicken them up a bit, they fit nicely into the Saturn III's and offer about 90x. It's a kludge though, and take some fiddling to get the EP's properly aligned, but it is tantalizing in that the views (when aligned) are just great and show how well a pair of EP's in the 80-90x range would work...
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