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Originally Posted by ausastronomer
Hi Paul,
I am also a glasses wearer and I can tell you those orthos don't have enough eye relief to use with glasses on. I know cause I own a full set of them, amongst many other eyepieces.
If you wear glasses I recommend you stick with eyepieces having 20mm of eye relief or very close to it. In the cheaper price bracket you can't go past the Orion Stratus/Baader Hyperion or the Vixen LV series or its recent replacement. You have indicated a budget of $200 per eyepiece and that will get you the Baader Hyperions and I wouldn't even consider going anywhere else with the exception of the 8.5mm Pentax XF.
Cheers,
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With eye relief and budget constraints, I'd also add in the Burgess/TMB Planetary eyepieces. They are available locally from Frontier Optic. I have a few and find them to be better than I expected for the price.
There is also a "clone" (or something near it) floating around in the USA (subject to much ethics discussions elesewhere on the web)...I can't remember the other company making and selling them at the moment. I've heard that in the US right now these "clones" are selling for around USD$59 each for multiple units.
While not quite in the same league as the Pentax, the are good value, in my opinion.