[mura_gadi (Steve)]

Hello,

I was going to suggest the ED Starguider as well, go straight to proastroz.com.au and they're $75 a pop. 60 degree over 50 is very nice gain, better eye relief at higher mag than plossls. The 25mm is not the best in the series but still rates well. You can get 6 ep's for $415.00. which is 3 pairs and a lot lighter than adding the dup barlows, remember you're going to have balance all this stuff.

The plossl really need to have blackened internals or you're wasting money, then there are the coatings etc. Also just because they say they are, really cheap plossl won't have FMC.

* coated: at least one optical surface has a single layer coating
* fully coated: all surfaces have a single layer coatings
* multi-coated: at least one surface has a multi-layer coating
* fully multi-coated: all surfaces have multi-layer coatings

A good plossl say Saxon(silver) 25mm is $67, (my fab would be the meade 4000 at $69 - astro anarchy - oos currently), which makes the starguider's good value, andrews communications offers a ED 25mm ep at $69. I have no idea if there are worth the money(they are likely from the same production line however). - andrewscom.com.au

I use the Starguider 8mm and 12mm and find them very good and with a mostly push dob the extra fov is great.


Steve
Ps. but listen to the bino users imho

Pps. Vixen LV 8-24mm zoom for $200 each are great, no they're not click stops, but if you print off a graded line paper that just ticks off min - max at say 20 notches you can get the same effect or very close too, across all zoom levels. I can only say from what I have read the Vixen LV exceeds the Baader Mk III (but why have mark x+1 if mark x was any good) by a lot, that may not be case against the MK IV and the baader has better FOV than the Vixen.