[jeelan (Jeelan)]

hey guys,

I recently purchased an CPC 1100 and it came with the standard Celestron 1.25" eyepiece kit.

Had some reasonable viewing through this over the last week or so, but looking to consolidate that into approx 3-4 high quality pieces.

Just wondering what the recommendations are? This scope is a F10 with FL of 2800mm.


I've got a budget of around $1500.

Couple of other changes I'd like to get some thoughts on:

- swapping the 1.25" diagonal with a Bintel dielectric 2" diagonal
- Adding a Telrad
- swapping the standard 9x50 finder with an illuminated reticle RACI finder

I also want to add a 2" SCT focuser on the visual back - dont know if I should start with a good quality one ie Baader, Moonlight etc (all around $400) or go with the Bintel branded ones which are around $169.00.

For the next 12-18months scope will be used for visual only - mixture of planetary and DSO; no intention to get into astrophotography yet but you never know - this hobby does funny things to people :-)

Any advise/thouhts greatly appreciated. I've had 3" and 4" scopes before (standard stuff from Aust Geographic store) but never a proper instrument like this one. Also hv young kids who I'd like to get into this.

cheers
Jeelan