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[Starman1]

Here is your new guide for 2024.

It includes a number of new entries and a few new companies.

A couple old companies disappeared.

Fill in your telescope's focal length and f/ratio at the top left, hit enter, and all the calculated columns will fill in.

Attached Files

•  2024 Buyer's Guide to Eyepieces.xlsx   202.2KB   2644 downloads

[MrMartin]

I’ve been looking forward to this. Thank you for your time and effort on this project!

[gene 4181]

  Thank you Donald !

[f18dad]

Awesome Don! Thanks again for your hard work on this and for sharing it with us!

[weis14]

Thanks Don!  

[Dave Mitsky]

Thanks, Don!

[AstroApe]

Man, you da man, man!

 

Thanks for all the work you put into this every year Don, it's a great help to the amateur community!!

[SandyHouTex]

Here is your new guide for 2024.

It includes a number of new entries and a few new companies.

A couple old companies disappeared.

Fill in your telescope's focal length and f/ratio at the top left, hit enter, and all the calculated columns will fill in.

Thanks Don.  That should come in pretty handy.

[Jon Isaacs]

Don:

 

Thanks for your efforts... 

 

The other day I had this crazy idea...  Imagine if Don invaded the astronomical wasteland known as YouTube..  Now that would be something I would watch.. 

 

Jon

[mountain monk]

Thanks for your labors, Don.

 

Dark skies.

 

Jack

[BRCoz]

Thanks Don.

[RobertJ]

Thank you!

 

-- Robert

[Bener]

Thanks for all your work on this and for generously sharing your astronomical knowledge with us all, Don.

[Olimad]

I join all the others CNers and thank you for your work, Don. 

[davidgmd]

Thank you Don. I look forward to this every year.

[johnfgibson]

Thanks, Don! 

Maybe a moderator could pin this new guide to the top of the forum and remove the 2023 guide?

[Starman1]

Thanks, Don! 

Maybe a moderator could pin this new guide to the top of the forum and remove the 2023 guide?

I've already asked.

[Elara]

Here is your new guide for 2024.

It includes a number of new entries and a few new companies.

A couple old companies disappeared.

Fill in your telescope's focal length and f/ratio at the top left, hit enter, and all the calculated columns will fill in.

Thank you Don, that’s a lot of work and is very much appreciated - top man!

[Starman1]

Thanks, guys.

This year it took me two months to compile.

I left out innumerable no-name eyepieces sold direct from China on Amazon, eBay, and Ali Express.

They were all very inexpensive, and mostly garden-variety Plössls, but even then, no name?

[Exnihilo]

To Donald you listen.

[CeleNoptic]

 ​ Thanks, Don, for your great tireless work! I frequently refer to your Guides, extremely helpful! 

[Jehujones]

Thanks Don

  

[Starman1]

Argh!

One new line of eyepieces just appeared:

Ursa Major FMC Flat Field eyepieces from First Light Optics in the UK.

These are the same as the Premium Flat Field eyepieces sold by several other companies.

If you want the latest version of the spreadsheet, I will post it here (I cannot edit the original post).

The specs are elsewhere in the spreadsheet so you can add them yourself, or simply download this version:

[I forgot the 25mm.  You can copy the specs from the Astrotech PF 25mm]

Attached Files

•  2024 Buyer's Guide to Eyepieces.xlsx   256.89KB   273 downloads

Edited by Starman1, 20 April 2024 - 09:59 AM.

[star69]

Thanks Don. Outstanding contribution as always. 

It's interesting (to me) how the more I learn about observing and the eyepieces I like/don't like, the more valuable this resource becomes. 

 

-Kevin

Edited by star69, 20 April 2024 - 10:25 AM.

[Starman1]

A Buyer's guide to visual-use nebula filters will soon follow.