Ultra Low Power Svbony 40 mm Plossl Eyepiece

foreign welcome back to the channel thank you so much for dropping by now SV Boney has very kindly sent me another product to have a look at now if you're regular to my channel you'll know that I'm a big fan of SV bony products and uh this little eyepiece here is no exception what we'll do we'll have a closer look first and then I'll tell you why I think that uh everybody should own an eyepiece like this now this is a 40 millimeter Plusle eyepiece and um as soon as you get out of the box thing you can tell that this thing it feels good there's a little bit of weight to it now that's all due to it's also in a complete steel casing all the housings all metal always a good sign in an eyepiece now all the Optics are fully multi-coated and with a as you I don't know if the camera is picking up we've got this lovely green Hue to them um and our standard it's a inch and a quarter barrel and also a standard these days it's also got your the internal thread which you can apply filters and such like to the end of the barrel another little feature I do like the start adding to especially these eyepieces that start to get a little bit heavier is this little rubber grip all around the center of the eyepiece now that's not just for cosmetic that really does assist especially in Colder Weather and when it starts to get a little bit dewy believe me I've been there before picked an eyepiece up and it's just simply slipped out of my hand and it's the deck so having this little little rubber grip there is is a nice little feature now as I mentioned earlier this is a Plusle design eyepiece and that's just the uh the way the lenses are configured in the eyepiece it's just the name of the given to this type of lens configuration and uh the apostles are one eyepiece that I always recommend as a good first upgrade to your eyepiece collection um the thing is with plusels it's it's pretty difficult to produce a bad colossal to make a bad Plusle they usually always really good quality the only downside to plusles is you do lose a little bit of field of view now um with this in this case this is around about a 40 degrees or something like that field of view but don't let that put you off because this is an incredibly low powered eyepiece and I'll get to why that doesn't really matter so much in a short while now with this only having a uh 40 degree field of view like I say don't let that put you off because it is a very low powered eyepiece at 40 millimeters and because you're not having such a zoomed in uh view of the night sky you were you kind of don't notice that narrow a field of view now when we say low power this really is on the uh on the lowest on the low end of power if you like with eyepiece you can't get much eyepieces with much of a of a longer focal length without going into the such a specialist category so why would you need an eyepiece with such low power you know you're probably thinking that astronomy is all about power power power power power more power the better well it's a big misconception in astronomy and usually some of your best views in astronomy are towards the lower end spectrum of magnification if you like now 40 mils are what I call uh Galaxy Busters these are the eyepieces that are absolutely fantastic for deep Sky targets um again a common mistake that a lot of beginners use is think they've got a pile on the magnification to see some of these uh brighter galaxies and it's simply not the case with something like this 40 mil is going to give you some lovely views of open clusters such as the Pleiades or you've got the double clusters such as in Perseus the purchase double cluster looks fantastic in an eyepiece like this as we're opposed to a lot more powerful eyepiece you're just not going to get it all in the field of view but the main reason why I think that all especially if you're a beginner in this hobby is to get yourself a low powered eyepiece is it's really going to help you to just find Targets now I get a lot of comments often of people that simply say I can't see anything through my telescope when I look through it the night at night time and this usually is due to again they're using too much magnification to start the observation off and having be having something like this armed in your tool kit in your accessory tool kit or eyepieces is a real bonus because you can use it in conjunction with your finder or more or or more like extension to you find a scope because I can guarantee you if you've got that Target in your find on your finders anything like in tune with your telescope you're going to see it with this 40 millimeter eyepiece this the images are really bright and sharp and like I say there's nothing zoomed in um with a 40 millimeter eyepiece and another great thing um especially when you're just starting out this hobby um occasionally you can just get the you can spend all the time getting the thing in the field of view an equation you might just knock the telescope or something happens where it comes out of the field of view and then you seem to be fishing all over the place to try and find it and then you have to go through the whole process again but you get armed with one of these things a 40 mil the best idea as long as you haven't knocked it at 180 degrees in a circle but if you just knocked it a little bit take that eyepiece you were using your higher power one and swap it where a low powered IPS and I can guarantee you that that Target he was looking for will be in the field of view then all you need to do now is Center it back in your low powered eyepiece and then slowly increase the power as always like I advise you always start with low power and gradually increase but if you are struggling to actually find things in the first place in your room in your telescope this might just be the answer the one thing that really does surprise me with these is the price uh for an all-metal constructed eyepiece um you know to to this standard you can pick one of these up for just shy of 30 pounds I think they're around about 29.99 and to be honest with you I don't know why um svb only hasn't sold out of these things because they're lovely eyepiece oh another little attention to detail I must point out that these are plosyl lenses inside here have got blackened edges now usually you only find this in a lot higher quality eyepieces and the reason they do this is it it prevents or helps prevent uh light scattering because every time light passes through glass you do lose a bit around the edges and when they blackened the edges it does dramatically improve contrast so the thought of everything with this eyepiece now just a little word of advice before you do go purchase this this is extremely low power and I would say it's more recommended for a minimum of telescopes round about a 600 millimeter focal length at 600 this is going to give you a magnification of around about 15 times so you can imagine that you know you start dropping like a 300 focal length you're getting around about 7 0.5 but when you think about it that's still binocular sort of strength and if you haven't got a pair of binoculars then you can easily turn your normally two powerful telescope into a little spotting scope with one of these 40 millimeters so you can see incredibly versatile little eye pieces well that's it for another video folks thank you so much for watching uh as always if you're new and you haven't subscribed please uh subscribe and hit that notifications Bell because I do do regular uploads for the new astronomer um there's all sorts don't forget to drop by on my main page of things to find hints tips tricks you'll you'll there's hours and hours of fun on there so go and have a look in the meantime folks take good care of yourselves and I will see you on the next one bye for now foreign

Channel: Small Optics

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Keywords: astronomy, astronomy for beginners, astronomy for dummies, Svbony, Svbony barlow lens, telescope, star gazing, the moon, the stars, review, the planets, solar system, astrophotography

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Length: 8min 36sec (516 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 03 2023