"Kick Around" eyepiece

This is the kind of eyepiece you can carry in your pocket and use
immediately.
I use this one in a permanently mounted (grab) 80mm f5 refractor. Its
made of an old military Plossl eyepiece and an adapter that was used
to convert the old 32 and 40mm UO Konigs from 2" to 1-1/4" barrels.
Since the coatings on the eye lens (typical of old military
gear) were not in the best of shape, if it gets dusty I can just wipe
it with whatever is handy.
No point in treating a new eyepiece like that.

http://www.pbase.com/andersonrm/image/56809228

Rich wrote:

This is the kind of eyepiece you can carry in your pocket and use
immediately.
I use this one in a permanently mounted (grab) 80mm f5 refractor. Its
made of an old military Plossl eyepiece and an adapter that was used
to convert the old 32 and 40mm UO Konigs from 2" to 1-1/4" barrels.
Since the coatings on the eye lens (typical of old military
gear) were not in the best of shape, if it gets dusty I can just wipe
it with whatever is handy.
No point in treating a new eyepiece like that.

http://www.pbase.com/andersonrm/image/56809228

I trust you still use an end-cap rather than let lint from the eyepiece
into your scope.

I don't use it in any scope other than the 80mm f5 and it has a prism
diagonal so
the lint (if any) has no way to get into the scope.

On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 18:18:45 -0500, Rich wrote:

This is the kind of eyepiece you can carry in your pocket and use
immediately.
I use this one in a permanently mounted (grab) 80mm f5 refractor. Its
made of an old military Plossl eyepiece and an adapter that was used
to convert the old 32 and 40mm UO Konigs from 2" to 1-1/4" barrels.
Since the coatings on the eye lens (typical of old military
gear) were not in the best of shape, if it gets dusty I can just wipe
it with whatever is handy.
No point in treating a new eyepiece like that.

http://www.pbase.com/andersonrm/image/56809228

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I have a 7-21 mm Scopetronics zoom that I keep in my telescope as a
"dust" cap... I use one end of a barrel EP case to cover it...

Heck I thik I paid under 50 bucks for it... not the greatest but sure
makes grab and go a little easier... Many a night I have not even
bothered to use any other eyepieces....

Bob G.