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Old 29-12-2004, 08:11 PM
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Low power widefields are nice if you live without light polution.
You'll know yourself from using the 25 and 30mm .

I would start with a good barlow, such as the Orion 2x Ultrascopic 3 element. This will give you the following effective focal lengths.

30mm
25mm
15mm (barlowed 30) Good for dso's
12.5mm (barlowed 25) Good for dso's
4.5mm (barlowed 9mm) very high mag , rarely useful
4mm (throw it away )

The beauty of a barlow is that you can view at higher powers and all with the comfortable eye relief of the longer focal length eyepieces you already have.

As for eyepieces, a 12.5mm when barlowed at 2x gives a very useful magnification with your scope for viewing the planets.

When buying eyepieces and the like , buy quality and cry only once

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