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Originally Posted by Reg Johnson
Hello, Ive recently bought a 12" dob and im just beginning to realise that I should have bought better eypieces to start with (instead of the generic ones supplied) it has great light grasp at 60x and 100x but on planets can only just hang in there at 166x but nearly useless at 375x (I thought I needed high power for planets) this at 2am , so the sky was dark
enough, Ive never seen any detail at all on Mars which was disapointing , and am reluctant to spend
$250 - $350 on an eyepiece that might show detail.
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Could be the tube currents ruining your view of the planets at higher magnification. I very rarely get good
high magnification views thru my 250mm Dob even though it has a
theoretical max magnification of x500.