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Message: <blockquote data-quote="birdrousta" data-source="post: 3336907" data-attributes="member: 129957">It was your point about gapping that got me to look at it carefully.  I knew I was up off my cheek with the placement I was doing against the upper eye socket, but I was able to get the glass to the same spot each time and knew the FOV there.  The alternative was to not be in contact with my face, but it's hard to keep a steady alignment that way unless the bins are on a tripod.  The best way to get more points of contact with my face to see if I was bouncing light off my face into the ocular, without bring the binocular either too close to my eye or my eye out of the line of the exit pupil, seemed to be to mimic the diameter of an eyecup I knew worked for me - I'm just pleased as punch that it the eye placement relaxes so much.   And it says something about the glass as well that despite a learning curve, I'm keeping at it.  They really are very good and now, much less picky <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />  Great, just pulled the cups off for a quick look, then reseated them.  I'm going to bring in a pair of 42 mm O rings next, fit them under the vanguard eye rings, and put a small daub of rubber cement or similar on the long flap of the eye ring.  I'll mostly leave the onboard eye cups as the base, but very nice to know how to pull them - for cleaning the oculars, having the eyecups off is helpful.</blockquote>

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