Re: budget wide field eyepeices???

From: Mike Thomas (Mtom_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:35:08 GMT

"bob" <bob@bob.com> wrote in message
news:f97d04e66bad77084266624954274455@news.teranews.com...
> I'm currently looking for an inexpensive, but wide field 9-10mm eyepeice
> for my 8" dob. Ones I'm considering are the Orion Expanse, the Seiberts
> wide field (not the ultra wide field), and the Antares W70. Can anyone
> tell me how these compare?
>
> Right now, knowing nothing, I'm leaning towards the 8.7mm Antares W70,
> based on specs alone. Would this be a bad choice? If none of these are
> good, I'd probably end up with an Orion Sirius or Highlight Plossl. I
have
> a couple other Sirius plossls and think they are OK.
>
> thanks

Look, nobody here or anywhere else is going to help. There will always be
biases from
people who either got burned or are too discriminating etc. Are your eyes
any better than anyone elses?
Probably not. Are you some freaked out discriminating observer that worries
about such
stupidity as "ghosting" and "vignetting" or that bad bad "internal
reflection"? I have a
30 dollar US Omcon 9mm plossl that suffers from none of these and gives fine
images. But hey,
that's just my opinion.

I have a 15mm ultra plossl from Antares and it too is great for my purpose.
I once even compared
it directly to a Telvue panoptic on Saturn and aside from the wider field, I
saw the same things with
equal clearity.

So go buy the W70.