Sorry i did mean planets. hence if you read the whole post it will make sense anyhow.
I have acess and use Meade Series 5000 ep's and i cannot fault them. They always give beautiful views.
The only thing i say about planetarys is that 5mm ep's always have short eye relief, unless your willing to part with $300+ and hence a Barlow with a 20 or 15mm is quite nice, as you get the aparent FOV and eye releif that you get with those kinds of eye pieces.
The problem is also that getting conditions that are good enough for using these high mag eye pieces is not very often and hence unless you are 100% commited to planetary without ever looking past there, buying such an expensive ep for just a hand full of nights I cannot see the value of. But also saying that if i had the money and didn't care, why not
buy the best that i could buy
I just hate seing people buy heaps of eye pieces for no reason when what they have is quite sufficient untill they get further into the game. even then i would only be replacing my current Skywatcher eps and barlow with higher quality as they still give me a wide range of mags!