Anyone using the 40mm OptiluxeT 2" Eyepiece?

Anyone using the 40mm OptiluxeT 2" Eyepiece?


Thoughts, comments?
Thanks!
Orion



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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 01:52:40 GMT, "Orion" ...reflected:


Anyone using the 40mm OptiluxeT 2" Eyepiece?


Thoughts, comments?
Thanks!
Orion

Are you...gulp...~THE~ Tim Geisler?!

....incognito, of course.

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Alan

"Orion" wrote in message
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Anyone using the 40mm OptiluxeT 2" Eyepiece?

Yes. It's not bad at all. Twice the money will buy you slightly better
edge sharpness, of course, but I enjoy mine.


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Clear skies,

Michael Covington -- www.covingtoninnovations.com
Author, Astrophotography for the Amateur
and (new) How to Use a Computerized Telescope

I wish I had his $
I was using Orion as a handle long before Orion telescope was....
Cleardarkskies!
Orion

"Alan W. Craft" wrote in message
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 01:52:40 GMT, "Orion"
....reflected:


Anyone using the 40mm OptiluxeT 2" Eyepiece?


Thoughts, comments?
Thanks!
Orion

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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 04:44:41 GMT, "Orion" ...reflected:

I wish I had his $

Then we'd be looking at Televue's instead, eh?

I was using Orion as a handle long before Orion telescope was....

Indeed, were the virtual billboards in place even then?

Cleardarkskies!
Orion

"Alan W. Craft" wrote in message
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 01:52:40 GMT, "Orion"
...reflected:


Anyone using the 40mm OptiluxeT 2" Eyepiece?


Thoughts, comments?
Thanks!
Orion

Are you...gulp...~THE~ Tim Geisler?!

...incognito, of course.

Alan

Virtual billboards?
Sorry, I don't grok...
Orion

"Alan W. Craft" wrote in message
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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 04:44:41 GMT, "Orion"
....reflected:

I wish I had his $

Then we'd be looking at Televue's instead, eh?

I was using Orion as a handle long before Orion telescope was....

Indeed, were the virtual billboards in place even then?

Cleardarkskies!
Orion

"Alan W. Craft" wrote in message
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 01:52:40 GMT, "Orion"
...reflected:


Anyone using the 40mm OptiluxeT 2" Eyepiece?


Thoughts, comments?
Thanks!
Orion

Are you...gulp...~THE~ Tim Geisler?!

...incognito, of course.

Alan


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On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:28:46 GMT, "Orion" ...reflected:

Virtual billboards?

My point being that with Orion Telescope
celebrating its 28th year in operation, how
then could you have possibly begun using
"Orion" as a Usenet handle prior to the
company's inception, Citizens Band
notwithstanding, and with even
that cutting it a bit close, not
to mention its utter irrelevance.

I've yet to purchase a 2" eyepiece, as I've
only just received a 2" compression-ring ocular
adaptor for my FS-102. I also got a 2" sleeve
in order to attach the 1.25" compression-ring
ocular adaptor that came with the O.T.A. to the
2" version, which will then allow for straight-
through observing with the many 1.25"
eyepieces that I have. However I'll have to
get a 2" extension if I want to do any straight-
through observing with any 2" eyepieces I
finally decide upon, or else a 2" star diagonal
with a 1.25" adaptor. I'm also having a JMI
NGF-DX3 2" focusser integrated with the
Parks 8" f/5 Newtonian that I've custom-ordered,
and to mount on a Vixen GP-DX, alternately with
the Takahashi.

Orion's Optiluxe 2" oculars look promising,
particularly with its 62-degree apparent field,
and using only four lens elements.

I wonder if these are made by Kokusai Khoki
in Japan, the same company that makes the
University Optics orthoscopics. If so, I would
like one of these myself.

Alan

Alan W. Craft wrote in message . ..
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:28:46 GMT, "Orion" ...reflected:

Virtual billboards?

My point being that with Orion Telescope
celebrating its 28th year in operation, how
then could you have possibly begun using
"Orion" as a Usenet handle prior to the
company's inception, Citizens Band
notwithstanding, and with even
that cutting it a bit close, not
to mention its utter irrelevance.
[...]

The "Net" has been around for a l-o-n-g time; I helped setup some of its
beginnings in 1971 and by 1972/73 I was able to use, for example, an IBM 360/195
at the Rutherford High Energy Labs (90 miles north of London, UK) from my home
in Silicon Valley (California).

The original "Net" news was called, surprisingly, "netnews" before the change
to Usenet. Often an entire's day batch was transmitted over phone lines via
UUCP because access to the ARPANET was not publicly available and the volume
was nothing like today's mess.

People were using "handles" then (late 1970s) for news, and were also using
handles on the various BBS systems and services such as GEnie, BIX, etc.

Circa early 1980s there was the "great renaming" of all the newsgroups, and
commercial backbones started appearing and many BBS systems and services began
connecting to what's now known as the Internet. People's usage of handles was
common then and now. I recall someone attempting to use the handle "orion" on
one of my BBS systems circa early 1980s but I doubt it's the same person or the
Orion (USA) company; I didn't permit handles on my systems (to eliminate their
anonymity) and that helped make these systems very popular because everyone who
subscribed respected the fact people are responsible for their own words.

On 21 Sep 2003 19:46:58 -0700, (Thad Floryan) ...reflected:

snip

The original "Net" news was called, surprisingly, "netnews" before the change
to Usenet.

How is it surprising, as it's most descriptive, and to the point of my further
asking, why the change to "Usenet" in the first place?

snip

Alan...a Usenet denizen since 1996

"Alan W. Craft" wrote in message
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On 21 Sep 2003 19:46:58 -0700, (Thad Floryan)
....reflected:

The original "Net" news was called, surprisingly, "netnews" before the
change
to Usenet.

How is it surprising, as it's most descriptive, and to the point of
my further
asking, why the change to "Usenet" in the first place?

I am not sure there really was a change. Usenet is the UNIX network that
carried the newsgroups until it was absorbed into the Internet. (Maybe
ARPAnet for an intervening period -- I'm not sure.)

The term "netnews" fell out of use for obscure reasons.