[trufflehunter (Wayne Robinson)]

I'm looking at replacing my Meade 6.4mm and 9.7mm Plossls with something better... and my little brain keeps nagging me to look at an 8mm Tele Vue Radian. I guess I'm sick of trying to look through the little pin-prick eye lenses of the Meades.

Logic, on the other hand, tells me I can barlow my GSO SuperView 15mm to 7.5mm so why bother forking out $380 for a Radian?

An 8mm Radian will give me a nice rounded figure of 250X on my LX90. I'm thinking it would become my 'work-horse' high power ep.

I've never used a Radian, and if I get one it'd be my first Tele Vue! I really like the idea of 20mm of eye relief, but have read some mixed reviews about the 'sweet spot' issue. I have a 4mm Vixen Lanthanum and it does a similar thing, although I'm used to it now. I don't use it much though... it's total overkill most nights (500X!).

I suppose I want the Radian for planets and close doubles, and I've also thought about a "volcano top" UO Ortho (certainly a much cheaper option, but doesn't give the eye relief)... oh dilemnas!

There's a beer in it for the first one to completely convince me that I really need one!