I have spent the last two years trying and buying and looking through other people’s eyepieces and barlows in a wide range of telescopes. Mine range from 50 mm to 203 mm aperture, 350 mm FL to 1900 mm FL across refractor, Newtonian and Mak. I have looked through but never owned an SCT.
I have acquired 21 eyepieces new, used or packaged with a scope. I have come to the following approach going forward.
- 1 or 2 low power wide field eyepieces (2" 30 to 40 mm/65 to 82 degree For 1.25", 32 mm Plossl )
- Zoom for the midrange - 24 to 8 mm (Zoom is my most used eyepiece in all of my telescopes)
- Barlowed zoom for the high range adding some single wide field eyepieces over time if the need is there.
Wide AFOV, over 60 degrees, are helpful in manual tracking scopes but may be a luxury in GoTo and motorized tracking scopes.