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Thanks for the advice
My main interest is in finding deep sky objects, but I still enjoy looking at planets too. My location here limits me to the brightest deep sky objects. That's the main reason I ordered the GSO 12 inch dob. Just arrived and still in its boxes. It will hopefully enable me to take it to darker locations than suburbia. I am holding off on eyepieces until I can meet some of the local IIS members for an observing session, and compare their various chunks of coke bottle. This is what they have advised and I think it's pretty sensible advice.
My current eyepieces are old Celestron Plossls and Orthos, I mainly use the 26 Plossl and 18 Ortho. I was originally thinking of a 22-24mm Televue and a good barlow, as a starting point. I don't need a vast range and Televues are an expensive choice. I really need to be sure i have picked the right one.
The Radians are advertised on the Bintel site as a planetary EP and don't go longer than 18mm. Time will tell, just as well I can't afford Televues at present after buying the GSO scope.
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