My 30mm is an Andrews UWA (ulta wide angle). You can buy them from Andrews Communications from around $140. This isn't a great ep. It isn't sharp and contrasty and suffers on the edges. But I didn't buy it for quality, I knew that at the time. It serves a purpose, just pure scanning, and for that it's fabulous. It gives me 80 deg. fov. at 30mm.. some serious scanning. Note, that this is very low mag. When you point it at Saturn, it just looks like a pin point of light. But this is just purely for scanning as I said earlier. I did find the Tarrantula neb with it, when I first got it, so that's saying something. It's good, just not great. Generally, when you talk widefield, you talk $$$$. But worth it.
Glad you enjoyed Brisbane! I love it here.
Except for the weather the last few months has been pitiful.
Here's a link for the review on it
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/42-134-0-0-1-0.html
It is a 2" buy the way.