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Old 06-05-2015, 07:11 PM
inertia8 (Australia)
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That's correct, I suffer astigmatism and find it easier to keep my glasses on all the time and through trialing different eyepieces have found 15mm eye relief to be the absolute minimum for me.

Remember that you will need to get 1.25" eyepieces and advice for this little scope is to keep them under 250g.

I began with a Bintel/GSO superview 15mm for $49, which is good for the price (aFoV is 68deg and ER is 15mm). To get it to come to focus in the little 130p I have to loosen the strut tubes and retract them by about 1cm or so.

The BST Starguider/Explorer (also sold under Astrotech Paradigm and Agena Dual ED) range, as suggested above, has a pretty good eye relief and gets reasonably favourable reviews. The 8mm one has 60deg apparent field of view (aFoV) and 16.5mm eye relief (ER) and might be a suitable replacement for your 10mm.

Good Luck
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