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I started of with 25mm and 10mm Plossl's in my 130mm EQ2 mounted Saxon Newt. Then I had a loaner 8" dob from the ASV that came with 2 EPs exactly identical to the ones I had.
Then I bought my 12" GSO dob. It came with (I think) a 32mm 2" Plossl and a set of 1.25" one's consiting of 25, 15, 12, 9 and 6. You used to get a lot of EPs in those days!
I then decided to get a premium EP and lashed out on a 13mm T6 Nagler. My reasoning was that I knew a few people who used 12mm T4 Nags and I had looked through a couple and it beat the socks off the shorter Plossls, but the 13mm was a little cheaper. That EP blew me away when I first used it.
Then I picked up a second hand 24mm Panoptic from Paddy and it was a lovely thing, wide, flat and easy to use. I picked up a 32mm Meade 68deg EP shortly after. With those 3 I decided to offload almost all the plossls, giving away some and selling the rest.
I then picked up a 10mm Ethos and a 7mm Nag on special at Border Stargaze in 2011 and that hooked me on Ethoi.
When I purchased the 20 late last year it came with a set of EPs (9mm Nag, 12mm Nag, 16mm Nag and 35 and 41mm Panoptics.
I have now sold everything except my 10, 13, 17 and 21mm Ethos that I have acquired in the past year, the 41mm Panoptic and a single 10mm Plossl (one that came with my first scope) that I keep so very occasionally I have a look through to remind me how good the quality EPs really are.
Oh and my latest acquisition is a 12mm reticle EP that I acquired to assist with aligning the Argo. But trying to use with the 20" at 254x and such a tiny FOV is no fun.
So that is my potted EP history
Malcolm
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