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Old 30-04-2011, 04:54 AM
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It's worth using the provided EPs to get a sense of which mags you prefer.
You can sort of extrapolate wider FoVs from there.
I've liked the following for an 8" dob/newt:
35 Panoptic
32 Agena Astro/UO SWA
30 Takahashi (not a widefield but superb contrast and faultless colour)
27 Panoptics
24 Panoptics
24 Takahashi (see above )
20 Nagler

For some reason, I have never warmed to the longer Naglers in dobs. I don't know why - maybe I've never tried them with a coma corrector, but they always seem to have too much curvature and coma for me.
To my eye, the Panoptics have a noticably flatter field with sharper stars.
YMMV,
Peter
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