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Originally Posted by Don Pensack
The point is, in an undriven scope
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... is NOT ideal for high powered views of ANYTHING.
OP, you must firstly have a scope that tracks at sidereal rate, for starters, and know how to align it well enough.
Second, you have a tradeoff to make : image quality at high power vs field of view.
Those serious about high power views of smallish objects opt for image quality over ultra wide apparent fields of view and in this respect eyepieces with fewer elements (3 elements or less) for maximum sharpness on-axis, minimum scattered light, no ghost images. Smallish fields (50 degrees or less) are an accepted compromise that goes with this.
