Best 3 EP's for a 300mm F5 dob

[janoskiss (Steve H)]

Originally Posted by asimov

TV plossl is a good option as well. Chromatic abberations!? Don't remember seeing that in that EP.

It's there though. Try looking at the Moon with one of them. It has a yellow outline in my 15mm TV plossl (both in the Dob and the ED80). No false colour in the centre of the FOV. The closest to CA-free EPs I tried are the HD orthos.

[Dobman (Simon)]

After much hair pulling & head scratching I finally took the plunge & bought my first decent Ep. Thanks to everyone for your advice, but as lots of you have said ,nothing beats trying out an EP b4 you buy. A friend of mine in Melbourne has a meade s5000 8.8 UW & i got to have a look thru it recently & was very impressed with it. So much so , I bought one!

Only used it a couple of times so far but very happy with it. Most of the reviews I've read, put it 3rd behind the nagler & pentax's but a whole lot cheaper.
My 1st impressions are
1. build quality is very good. This EP really looks like a premium EP!
2. I love the twist up eyeguard. I dont wear specs, so I just twist the guard up and basically snuggle my eye right into the guard ( a bit like using an eye bath!). The grease on the barrell isnt a problem once you know its there-just remember to twist it down b4 you remove it from the focuser
3. Absolutely love the wide field. I can place an object right on the edge & let it drift into and out of view. To my untrained eye ,I cant really detect much difference in sharpness across the field.At this stage i cant see myself ever going for any narrower FOV eps. Why would you?. havent noticed any kidney bean effect yet.
Must go, If i have any more thoughts I'll post them

[davidpretorius]

well done simon, bring it along sunday and we can compare with the 5mm vixen

[33South (Chris)]

Originally Posted by Dobman

A friend of mine in Melbourne has a meade s5000 8.8 UW & i got to have a look thru it recently & was very impressed with it. So much so , I bought one!

You wont regret it, I bought one earlier on in the year and its my favourite by a long way.
With the LX90 the Moon and Orion Nebula stopped me in my tracks, it was like Id never seen them before.
I use it more than all the others put together. But then it did cost twice as much.

Im hoping someone at Lostock will let me have look-see thru the equivalent Nagler to see if its worth the extra money - I doubt it.
But I have been wrong before.....

[ausastronomer (John Bambury)]

Originally Posted by 33South

Im hoping someone at Lostock will let me have look-see thru the equivalent Nagler to see if its worth the extra money - I doubt it.
But I have been wrong before.....

Well !!!! If you ask me really really nicely I will let you look through my 10mm Pentax XW which is better than the equivalent Nagler, IMO

CS-John B

[33South (Chris)]

Originally Posted by ausastronomer

Well !!!! If you ask me really really nicely I will let you look through my 10mm Pentax XW which is better than the equivalent Nagler, IMO

CS-John B

< me asking nicely

Thanks, would be greatly appreciated

Chris.