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Old 12-10-2009, 07:54 PM
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I recently bought a Meade series 5000 Plossl 5.5mm. Bintel sells it for about $130. Oddly enough, its eye lens isn't the widest, but it outperforms my Vixen LV 5mm at half the price, but a generation younger in technology. In my 10" it gives 230X & my 17.5" 360X. It wowed my eyes out of my head its image of Jupiter.

Andrews sells Williams Optics EPs. The Planetary range is probably better than my Meade at more or less the same price.

Other IIS folk may help out for a better choice.
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