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Originally Posted by AG Hybrid
What an interesting situation.
I have that exact setup regarding the ES eyepieces. I posted it in the Eyepiece case thread the other week.
I use mine primarily in my 12". They give a good spread of magnification and exit pupils at F/5. Now I use my eyepieces and thoroughly enjoy them. But, if your not doing anything with them. Sell all of them and buy something that you want to use.
I would personally ditch the 6mm and 42mm. No reason though. Just like the ES  . On the flip side if you sold off the 100 degree eyepieces alone you could probably afford the entire 82 degree ES set with the sales.
Because you mentioned it. Just be warned. The smaller ES 82 line has pretty short eye relief. Perhaps consider a couple Delos eyepieces in its place of the ES eyepieces you plan to sell. I have the 5mm, 10mm Pentax XW and 8mm, 14mm Delos for those times I want a more comfortable long eye relief night. They are also well corrected for F/5 and I don't need to use the coma corrector like I do with the ES eyepieces.
Or if you don't have one consider a Baader Hyperion zoom. Sell the 6mm, 9mm, 20mm, and 42mm. Leaves you with an outstanding mid mag 14mm and a nice lower powered wide field ES30.
Use the zoom eyepiece for lower powered and planetary/luna. You should have spare change for nice filters or something. |
I agree with the last paragraph above. I have a Baader Zoom and an ES 30mm 82° and they would account for 95% of my viewing eyepieces. I have a 42mm GSO which sometimes gets a run on Eta Carina, but very rarely.