[AZ-Observing] Re: Eyepiece rubber eye guards
- From: Dan Heim <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:17:58 -0700
I agree, and have never liked them. If you're observing in a
sufficiently dark area, what purpose do they serve? If you're not, find
a sufficiently dark area. If you can't, and you live where lighting is a
problem, they may have some limited value, but I've always preferred
just using my hands (and sometimes a towel) to block annoying ambient
light. Those "eye guards" always messed with my eye relief.
Dan
On 4/20/2012 10:06 PM, Stan Gorodenski wrote:
> I'm just curious what others think of the current practice to have these
> rubber eye guards on eyepieces. I imagine this got started as a
> marketing feature to sell eyepieces, but I have always thought it was a
> bad idea from the start since rubber will deteriorate. Decades ago
> eyepieces did not have them. Tonight I just threw away another rubber
> eye guard that has started deteriorating. Now I have an eyepiece with an
> ugly channel cut into it to hold the guard. They do not seem that useful
> to be having to buy new ones all the time, if they can be purchased, but
> what do others think?
> Stan
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