About a year ago I purchased a tiny little zoom monocular for my daughter. It was a fun little "do what you want with it" tool to get her familiar with optics and astronomy. Well a 4yo can be rough on pretty much anything so it was short lived. The prism was shot, the primary objective was scratched up, but the zoom eyepiece was okay. So in the junk bin it went.
Fast forward to this year and planet fever struck again. I have Barlows and eyepieces down to 7mm, but a ton of optics just to see Jupiter and so on was off putting for me. Then I remembered the junk bin zoom. I mounted it in a spare 1.25" tube, made sure it was well seated, and gave it a go. End result, a tiny 1-7mm zoom with a 15mm eye relief. It has ghosting bright targets, it's not the sharpest eyepiece, and has the typical narrow
The zoom eyepiece from a cheap QANLIIY 10-100x21
A spare 1.25" tube
Some tape for centering and fitting
Some Gorilla Glue to make it stays together
