Thread: What eyepiece?
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Old 30-07-2007, 10:22 PM
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.."power crazy". Yes, in no time I was shoving a 6mm eyepiece into a 2x barlow and looking at Venus as it sank to the west -

I mentioned "which of the Messier objects" because they are a diverse set ( http://www.deepskyobserving.com/ ) and the magnification you would want varies very widely.

Don't know why the experts haven't jumped in yet, so I'll rabbit on. I think your LX200 has a focal length of 2500mm? Therefore your 26mm eyepiece is giving you about 96x. I think there are objects (say M42) where you want to be down more around 40-50x. But there are others where you would like to be up around 400x, maybe?

Anyway, I think we have the message - you want some higher magnification options.
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