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Old 03-05-2006, 08:26 PM
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astropolak (Joe)
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12-14 mm focal length eyepiece - which one?

Hi
Originally wanted to PM John and Mike who did a great review on two of the eyepieces I am interested in but thought this may provoke a good talk on the forum.

I am looking at high quality eyepiece for my LX90 8" and considering three options:

1 12mm Pentax XF - $236 From Telescopes-Astonomy.com.au
2. 13mm TV Nagler T6 $465 From Bintelshop.com.au
3. 14 mm Pentax XW $410 From Telescopes-Astonomy.com.au

The 12mm XF got recently great review on Cloudynights.com but only 60deg AFV.
The 13mm TV won the shootout on Iceinspace review but only has 12mm eyerelief and b...y expensive.
The 14mm Pentax is favoured by John and I like my 10mm version but it has a field curvature problem (do not know how bad as I have not tested one in my scope).

Now, chances of all 3 being available to check out on any star party are small so I need some personal impressions form people who tested them.

What do you think?

RGDS Joe
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