[MortonH]

I'm looking for an eyepiece around 8-9mm with very good contrast, throughput and neutral colour. I want it to be lightweight so it can be used in my small refractors, which rules out Delos, LVW, etc. It also needs to be reasonably low cost and have minimum 50° AFOV.

Based on a lot of research I'd like to try an ortho, but I'm not comfortable with eye relief less than 12-13mm. Therefore I've been wondering about an 18mm Ortho with a 2x Tele Vue Barlow. However, I'm not sure to what extent the extra elements in the Barlow will negate the ortho advantage, in which case a Vixen NLV or SLV might be a better choice.

Any thoughts?