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Originally Posted by Ian Robinson
REALLY DEPENDS ON WHAT KIND OF VIEWING YOU LIKE.
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Fair cop, I guess, tho in reality I doubt there are many of us who aren't pretty much all-rounders, when all's said and done. What I look at is partly dependent on the weather, moon phase, cloud cover, and what planets are up. "Everything from double stars to nebulars."
Short tubes, dobs, SCTs even? I don't mind, I'll have them all, but at least some will be GoNowhere, undriven, if that makes a difference.
The zoom. Mmmmm... (is that cheating?) I have one, but can't say I'm enamoured of the disappearing field of view and defocussing refocussing. Again, more time spent jigging the thing rather than just looking through it.
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Originally Posted by wavelandscott
I'd say if I could only keep two eyepieces I'd pick the 24 Panoptic and the 10 mm Pentax XW.
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I would have put money on you saying that, Scott. Yes, the 10 mm Pentax is one sweet EP and was already on my list. I figure that if you only have two EPs, then it doesn't matter if one of them is a 2 incher, since interchanging them should be just as easy, apart perhaps from rebalancing issues (not the 31 mm Nagler, maybe. If the choice had been only
one eyepiece, however, I wonder how many would plumb for the 13 mm Ethos...)
Thanks for your comments, guys. Keep em coming...