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Old 29-04-2011, 11:10 AM
ausastronomer (John Bambury)
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Hi all,

I have a selection of plossl eyepieces (12.5mm celestron; 26mm Sirius; 32mm Televue) and a nagler 4.8mm. What I think I need to a top quality eyepiece around 20mm. It needs to be 1.25". Any suggestions from people's experience??
Hi Grant,

Some of the cheaper and mid priced eyepieces work fine in slow focal ratio scopes but unfortunately they perform very poorly in fast focal ratio newtonians and refractors. I suggest you work out which scope you are going to buy and then get eyepieces that suit the scope.

Cheers,
John B
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