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Originally Posted by alpal
Wow - you have some expensive scopes.
It's very interesting to compare eyepieces on different targets.
I've done that at Astronomy club nights.
Get everyone to bring their eyepieces over and try them out
in a high quality scope - especially a refractor.
Only then will people see why certain eyepieces cost a lot of money.
The best on planets were Zeiss eyepieces.
They gave the darkest blacks and the brightest surface -
in other words - more contrast.
On clusters such as the Jewel Box you could see more stars
with a top eyepiece - you'd get a darker background.
I found the Televues over rated.
Fujiyama's are excellent.
The Takahashi eyepieces were excellent.
I have one Takahashi Barlow and one Takahashi eyepeice too.
My Williams Optics eyepieces were quite good for the price -
they are keepers.
What was strange was how some people would spend $1000s
on a telescope but $10 on a cheap plastic eyepiece and
wonder why the view was no good.
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Well the choice was between buying Astronomical Gear or splurging on Hookers and Blackjack .. in the words of the old Knight in Indiana Jones Last Crusade
https://youtu.be/-_IlNbsILLE
Unfortunately I am Takless ... only have the latter four scopes now but I would love to look through a TOA-150 and APQ-150
Back on topic ... agreed ... Fujiyama's are excellent ... best value for money.