I agree. The reason I sold my 35mm Panoptic in the UK was that I only had a short-focal-length refractor at the time and the sky was too bright to make use of it. However, living in Oz I will definitely get out to dark skies where the sky brightness should be much less of an issue, and of course I have my trusty UHC filter.
Having said all of this, the view through my 32mm GSO eyepiece is pretty nice - nice enough that I'm not going to spend more than $500 on a new Panoptic!
Morton
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