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Originally Posted by dannat
there are a few, especially as the price goes up. At the cheaper end the WO spl series at 6mm has a fair bit of glass, as do the baader hyperion & vixen lvw if i remember correctly. (ordered from cheapest to dearest)
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I'd add Orion Stratus to this list as a cheaper option bearing in mind you do get what you pay for. One suggestion I have is to consider how much you will use the eyepiece. If you go for magnifications over 250x, you won't use it a lot due to seeing limitations and remember that 300x is about the maximum except on remarkably good nights. So I'd suggest working out which fl your likely to use most and spend more on that. When I had my GSO 12" dob, I bought a 5mm Stratus which was not a bad ep but at 300x I hardly ever used it. My shortest fl ep now is a 9mm Nagler (250x) and I don't get to use it a lot. So in your shoes assuming your scope has fl 1200mm I'd perhaps go for a 2x Barlow and the 10mm to get to 250x for good nights and think about upgrades for the two eps that you have. A barlow is a little more fiddly than a stand alone ep, but you may not be using it heaps. Mind you, I'm on a hill with lots of trees about which may impede my seeing conditions. If you're in a site that's more cleared, you might be able to use higher mags more often. Suburban roofs would not help though.