
CN Report: First Look - 8mm Ethos
#1
Posted 02 July 2008 - 09:50 AM
#2
Posted 02 July 2008 - 10:18 AM
Sean
#3
Posted 02 July 2008 - 10:21 AM
#4
Posted 02 July 2008 - 10:49 AM
I have a 13 Ethos and love it. Looks like an 8 will be joining it soon!
Charlie
#5
Posted 02 July 2008 - 11:54 AM
I ordered the 8mm Ethos because I liked my 13mm Ethos so much. Naturally it has rained here in Florida every day since its arrival. Very frustrating! Still, it's reassuring to read that I'll *someday* be treated to some great views of M13 and M57 in my 18" scope--if it ever stops raining here.

#6
Posted 02 July 2008 - 12:41 PM
Clear skies.
#7
Posted 03 July 2008 - 03:04 AM
#8
Posted 03 July 2008 - 07:12 PM
Eyepiece junkie in Wyoming

#9
Posted 04 July 2008 - 12:43 AM
#10
Posted 05 July 2008 - 12:16 PM
#11
Posted 06 July 2008 - 01:07 PM
#12
Posted 06 July 2008 - 03:53 PM
The new lineup....26 Nagler, 17 Nagler ('cause its parfocal with the 26), 13 Ethos, 8 Ethos.
What else do you need? (rhetorical question)

#13
Posted 06 July 2008 - 04:44 PM
One clarification:
The focal plane setting of 0.27" below the shoulder is very close to the 0.25" below the shoulder of the Nagler Type 6s, so the Paracorr setting with the supplied adapter is Setting 4.
If used as a 2", without the adapter, however, the best setting is Setting 1, with the Paracorr Tunable top all the way pulled out. Indeed, the perfect setting is 1.46mm farther out that that, but such a small distance is not worth fussing with.
Setting 5, though, is 14.16mm away from the proper setting.
I suspect your mind got the Paracorr settings reversed (a lot of people do that) and you said setting 5 when you meant "all the way out", which is really setting 1.
#14
Posted 07 July 2008 - 12:49 PM
What else do you need? (rhetorical question)
I guess that depends upon what else TeleVue comes up with

#15
Posted 07 July 2008 - 04:10 PM
You are correct. It should read with the paracorr all the way out. Thank you for pointing that out.
Thanks for the comments gents.
T
#16
Posted 17 July 2008 - 10:03 PM
#17
Posted 17 July 2008 - 10:09 PM

(In the words of the Guvner - "I'll be back!")
T
#18
Posted 17 July 2008 - 10:33 PM
#19
Posted 17 July 2008 - 10:54 PM
Fred