The 27mm Panoptic is fantastic. Well worth waiting to get one if you can afford it. Some say a premium EP is a luxury but in the low power range such as 27 30 35mm it makes a great difference in enabling you to track down DSO'S easier because of the contrast in the FOV of the EP. As far as we're concerned anything that makes it easier to find objects is worth the money.
And that goes for the Telrad as well. We find it THE BEST THING
Barb & David