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Originally Posted by TeZZa
Hi Miaplacidus, I noticed you have the same scope - what would you recommend as a more powerful eyepiece for the 80 FD? I was thinking of picking up the Andrews UWA 2" 80° 15mm eyepiece as well...
Any thoughts?
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ABSOLUTELY DON'T BUY THE 15 mm!!!!!!! In another post here recently I warned people off this eyepiece. I have it, and take my word for it, it is a shocker. (The moderators need to make a sticky of astro gear to avoid, and this eyepiece needs to be near the top of the list.)
Alas, I have no cheap suggestions for higher power EPs. I love my 10mm Pentax XW, and am pretty fond of my 12 mm Nagler, and the 5 mm Vixen LVW and Radian performs nicely in this little refractor. (I will be selling the Radian soon, probably for around $220.)
The Megrez loves wide fields, as I'm sure you'll find with the 30mm Andrews UWA. Still, I find 25, 15, and even 9mm GSO/Celestron plossls perform quite nicely in it too. (I guess those are my cheap high power suggestions.)
BUT REMEMBER: whatever you do, STEER CLEAR OF THAT ANDREWS 15mm UWA, IT'S A DOG!!!! (Lee ought to ditch it, I reckon.)
Cheers,
Brian.