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Old 18-09-2007, 01:46 PM
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rmcpb (Rob)
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J.A.L welcome to IIS I see I have missed the que to be your second, third, fourth husband so will just give up gracefully......

As to your question which, I might say has been well put. I agree with Steve that an eyepiece around the 20mm mark would be very useful so, unless you have your heart set on ultra wides, you could consider either:
  • a 19mm Panoptic with a 68 degree AFOV and 13mm eyerelief at $335 or,
  • an 18mm Radian with a 60 degree AFOV and 20mm eyerelief at $329 (better if he needs to wear specs when observing)
One of these coupled with a Televue 2x barlow at $149 would give your extremely lucky husband a wonderful range.

Cheers
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