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Originally Posted by Starkler
For me it went like this.....
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Heh - Yup!
I've done this with a couple of buddies now.
- I'll put a nice glob into the FOV in my Pentax 10mm XW.
- Ask them if they want to see the difference between a $50 EP and a $300 EP.
- Then I drop the 10mm Plossl into the scope and watch them squish their eyeball down, bump the scope every 5 seconds to keep it in the FOV, then give up after a minute because the EP has fogged up by then.
- Then I'll put the Pentax back in and watch them smile
My personal epiphany came when I used my 14mm XW to run the Coma-Virgo Galaxy cluster in my 4.5" Dob. It was a challenging night, to say the least and I spent a LOT of time at the EP hunting for very dim fuzzies - but my eyes never got strained or tired and it was one of the most rewarding nights I've spent behind my scope! Had that been something like my 17mm or 25mm Plossl, it would have been a very different story...