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Joe,
Your missing something here.
I own a full set of UO HD orthos and Daniel from Frontier Optics is a friend of mine and the last thing I wish to do is do him out of a sale.
The UO HD orthos are about as good as it gets for planetary observing. Only 1 problem and I see it as a big 1. They only come in 12mm and 9mm, I think 9mm is too much and 12mm is not enough. As I said before I think you need a 10mm eyepiece not a 9mm eyepiece, may not sound much but invariably I think you would get to use a 10mm on at least 25% to 30% more occasions than you would find the 9mm holding up. This of course depends a lot on the area you live and your prevailing seeing conditions. If you live in an area normally blessed with still calm air then the 9mm should be fine, if you have similar conditions to most of us the 9mm may not be fine all the time and may end up going back in your eyepiece bag on a fair number of occasions. Still if you do buy the 9mm UO HD ortho and it is too much you can always sell it and get 60% to 70% of your money back.
Your call but I would be buying a 10mm something, a Pentax XW or a 10mm Radian if you want to hurt the credit card, if you want to go with high quality and a bit cheaper the 11mm TV Plossl is an excellent planetary eyepiece as are the 10mm Celestron Ultima/Orion Ultrascopic. Another option is to get a 10mm Antares Elite Plossl from Canada, these are a 5 element Masuyama design plossl the same as the Celestron Ultima/Orion Ultrascopic.
CS-John B
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