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Old 04-01-2006, 11:13 AM
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aiming for 2nd Halley's

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low-medium premium EP recommendations for SCTs

Hi All, my recent stint under dark skies reminded me how lacking my eyepiece armoury is for anything other than planetary. I have a couple of 1.25mm cheap plossls of 25mm and 40mm, but other than that all my "good" eyepieces are 18mm or less in focal length. With my two cassegrains of 2140 and 2350mm FL these are a little lacking in FOV for much deep sky. Reckon I need some in the say 22 to 35mm range with >60deg fov.

I've read plenty on what's good in fast Dobs, but less on what's good in SCTs. Happy to pay good $ if the benefit is there, but I get the impression that much of the $ spent on top eyepieces like the Naglers is wasted on SCTs?

Only early probing at this stage but would welcome any feedbacks or feelings you have on this.

cheers,
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