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Originally Posted by jayeson
My eyes don't like looking through lenses of any kind for very long, so deciding to get decent eyepieces didn't require a lot of consideration. Plus I have astigmatism which thins out the options a bit.
- Jayeson
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Hi, and welcome.
I've got lousy astigmatism too.
For me, it isn't a problem with eyepieces that give 2mm exit pupils or smaller. It is very noticeable with 3mm exit pupils or bigger.
When changing lens scrip, I'd get them to grind my old eyeglass lenses into circles with one notch on the top for the right eye, and two notches for the left eye). Then with Blutack I stuck the right eye lens onto 40mm and 32mm 1.25" eyepieces (and a set into my 10x70 binoculars).
Then I found that the very cheap 2" GSO 26mm, 32mm, 30mm and 50mm eyepieces had very long eyerelief, and could easily be used with eyeglasses to give excellent views. Though I have a problem you don't have - I don't use a GOTO, and when I'm wearing my glasses, I can't read my star maps.
Beware of very good quality low power super wide angle and ultra wide angle eyepieces. They have shallower eye relief, and your eyeglasses can hit the eyepiece glass.
On the other hand, I like using 9mm exit pupils in my dob, because I can tilt my eye and get rid of the astigmatism without losing part of the field. But that exit pupil is kind of difficult to achieve in your telescope.
Regards,
Renato