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Originally Posted by ngcles
One of my favourite pass-times at this time of year with the 18", is to centre on a part of the LMC, insert the 20mm TII Nagler at x111 (44 arc-min true-field) with or without (depending on mood and what you want to see best) a Lumicon UHC filter.
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Hi Les,
Thanks for your response and for sharing your LMC observing experiences. I find your choice of eps (power) interesting. I found, even with the 16" I needed the 200x of the 9mm Nagler to get a clearer view of the small clusters (you know the dozens of them listed as being 1 arcmin in dia). However with the 9mm I might still have a wide field, but the true field was only 20 arcmin - no wonder I kept getting lost! For those turned off by the Naglers because of the cost, from my experience the 16mm Meade 5000 series (super wide angle ep) gives a great image at f4.5. Even with the 16 LB I get a 32 arcmin diameter field. Bintel currently sell them for $239.
Regards
Glenn