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Buy a planetary eyepiece or use Televue Barlow?
Hi guys,
I wanted to start of by saying this is my first post here and I love this site! There is so much useful information (and members), especially since it's really based for Australian residents. I have a 8" 1000mm newt, and the focal length really isn't long enough to do any decent planetary obersving. I've bought myself a Televue Powermate 5x Barlow which works very well and has allowed me to get some nice images of jupiter via my webcam.
So my question is this: For visual usage, should I buy a seperate Planetary Eyepiece, or get a 15mm (or similar) and use it with my Barlow? I already spent alot of money on the barlow and it's meant to keep the same eye relief, so getting a 15mm would be a two-in-one eyepiece.
Even perhaps a zoom eyepiece would be more useful.
What do you think?
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