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The very best inexpensive high power eyepieces that I know are the TMB Planetary Type II's. These are now only available as clones of the original from the Chinese company that made the originals. But even the clones are excellent! The eye lens on these is huge, some 20mm across on ALL of them. And the eye relief is great, meaning you don't need to put your eyeball on the lens to look into it, again for ALL of them! The Aparent Field of View (AFOV) in all of them is around 58deg, as opposed to 52deg with plossls. These TMBs are a little larger units than plossls, but they are tiny when compared to other contemporary designs.
I still have my 9mm and 6mm TMBs. My 9mm is my fav of the two. It also shows fainter stars than my more highly spec'ed 8mm Vixen LVW that was 5X the price!
The best price I can find on these now comes from ebay:
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