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Originally Posted by Satchmo
I think the 8mm Orion Stratus ( $179 locally ) or Baader Hyperion are a great choice without breaking the bank.They are basically chinese copies of the Vixen LVW eyepieces ( without the Lanthanum element ) .
If your scope is not well equiliberated and collimated there is only so much a better eyepiece can do. 8mm will show up any mirror issues in better seeing.
Hope this helps.
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Hello I've taken it out to Cookamidgera on 3 occassions now nice dark skies just out of Parkes.I am impressed with what I can see in it.Cris Toohey Has been around a lot of Telscopes . I think he has 30 years experience . He Collimated it for me out there We put his Ethos eyepiece in the scope Looked at the flame neb/ m42/ tarantula /Eta car. /Centaraus A/ omega cent. etc. things looked pretty good.He seemed to think it was working pretty well .Thats why I lashed out and bought the Panoptic.24mm It works well in the dob and work well with the 2x barlow.Do you know a good website the shows good instructions for Collimating an F5 dob. What does Equiiberated mean.I am chasing up one of those Laser barlow Collimators from SDM telescopes.reguard's Tony