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Old 25-08-2011, 05:34 PM
casstony
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Originally Posted by Gem View Post
Tammy, buy one at a time according to your budget.
That's good advice.

In terms of specific recommendations:

- for a fat wallet, 2 or 3 Televue Naglers, Panoptics, Delos, Ethos or Pentax XW (except for 14mm and 20mm). Eye relief varies from 12 to 20mm; apparent field of view varies from ~70 to 100 degrees, and some don't perform as well at f/5 so figure out what suits you before purchase.

- for a skinny wallet you can still get very good performance from cheaper eyepieces but finding the good ones is more of a minefield. The 13mm Hyperion/Stratus is the best of that line, Celestron Ultima LX 17 and 22mm are very good (also repackaged as Skywatcher 70 deg and Astro-Tech AF70, cheaper than Celestron too) and going cheaper again the GSO 30mm and 42 mm are decent. The Astro-Tech Titan II ED 30, 35 and 40mm are decent. Buying these eyepieces used is a good way to get good performance for a small outlay.

For narrow fields of view Televue Plossls are the default high quality eyepiece.

Hyperion 8 to 24mm zoom is useful.

There's also a bunch of others that I'm not familiar with.

Last edited by casstony; 25-08-2011 at 06:04 PM.
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