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Originally Posted by janoskiss
Just to make one more thing explicit - lest you fall into a common trap: you will not see more with expensive $400-$1000 wide angle eyepieces than with good plossls or orthoscopics costing around $100 ea (in fact quite the opposite!) - and less expensive FMC plossls like the GSOs are not that far behind these either. So don't fall into the trap of thinking that a Nagler or XW will show you so much more because it's so much more expensive and because people cannot stop going on and on about how they are the best thing in astronomy since Galileo. What you are paying for with the expensive widefield EPs is the wide field of view with good performance to the edge of field and close to on-axis performance of very good simple design EPs like plossls and orthos.
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In general agreement on the point made above...the difference in performance you pay for (value v top end quality) is in the last little bit...and I would suggest that for many the difference in enjoyment (between value and top end) is small...
The best gear (scope, eyepeice etc.) for you is the gear that you wil use and use often...top end, low end or mid range it does not really matter as long as you use it... the objective (in my opinion) is to get out at night and see "stuff" and enjoy the hobby...