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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ClayTaylorTX" data-source="post: 1432649" data-attributes="member: 81704">Hi Henry - Very interesting.   Please do.   <a href="mailto:ctaylor@att.net">ctaylor@att.net</a>Swarovski Optik made a 1.25" astro adapter from 1998 to about 2006.   We did not sell a lot of them, so it was finally discontinued.   Perhaps Swarovski Optik in Austria still has a few in the warehouse - have S.O. UK check for you.  Maybe you can find one on eBay or some other internet commerce site.I used to have a blast putting Naglers on my 80mm HD.   Interestingly enough, when using the older AT / ST 80 HD scopes, there were a number of astro eyepieces that failed to achieve infinity focus, including the Tele-Vue Panoptics, Vixen Superwides, and some of the Pentax WW eyepieces, as well as the Nagler and Pentax zoom eyepieces.When the newer ATS / STS models were introduced, many of the "bad focusing" eyepieces now were fine to infinity.   However, the zoom Naglers and the big Pentax were still a no-go.We also did the older version of the Swarovski Optik 20-60x eyepiece in a 1.25" barrel for astro scopes.  Quite a few astro customers with short focal length scopes loved using it.   I believe it had a focal length of 7-21mm.   Meade even bough a bunch of them from us and sold it under their marque.  Clay TaylorSwarovski Optik N.A.Calallen (Corpus Christi), TX</blockquote>