[Solanum]

I just bought a Nexstar 8SE from another forum member and I'm thinking about eyepieces. The ones I have filled the range I liked for my dob, but this scope has a 2032 mm focal length, 203 mm aperture and is F10, so they have very different magnification.

I used to find 50x was handy for locating stuff, 80-100x best for general viewing and 150-200x good for detailed viewing in good seeing. My better eyepieces are now in the 150-350x range....

Would adding a 40 mm (approx 50x) and 30 or 25 mm (approx 70x-80x) be sensible for this scope, or have I made a mistake somewhere? I guess ideally, I'd want 50x, 75x and 100x, though I have the latter.

I don't see a lot of 1.25" eyepieces at the 30-40 mm size. I guess my budget would be looking at something of the level of a second hand Vixen NLV (SLV is it now?) type of thing. Any suggestions?

My 6mm didn't get a lot of use before, I think it will get very little use now, should I just sell it?