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Originally Posted by ausastronomer
Nice review Mike,
the review does serve a purpose in informing people that the Series 500's are "not much" worse than the other crappy eyepieces so it may not be worth upgrading, unless you upgrade to something a little better than the cheap chinese/taiwanese offerings.
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I think you hit the nail on the head there John
A few of us were making a big noise about Andrews bundling the s500's instead of gso plossls with the GSO dobs. I was one of them, assuming that what I had heard from others about them being a half decent plossl was correct, without ever having used one myself
I should have twigged to this when I got my 20mm gso superview with its abberations and "dirty windscreen" views.
Andrews Comms sells the Synta super plossls, maybe they can help out with a review sample?
Another analogy I like to use is that using crappy eyepieces with a fine scope like a gso dob is like buying a quality hifi system and listening to it through crappy speakers from a cheap 3 in 1 system
A very loose analogy but the point is that much like with hifi, a quality "device to human interface" makes a big difference to the end result.
P.S. Mike if you cant get hold of a 10mm s500 locally , i can help you with mine.