Additionally, is there a 4-6mm sub-$100
Link: https://agenaastro.com/bst-1-25-uwa-pla ... e-5mm.html
Curious minds want to know.
Thanks,
3mm eye relief, gonna be painful.Lady Fraktor wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 6:43 pm https://agenaastro.com/vixen-6mm-npl-pl ... piece.html
XWs are great performers (I have a set ), but for the price of one XW you can by a complete set of Baader Orthos + good barlow, which offer the same (or even better) on-axes performance as XWs. So, for a casual observer withOzEclipse wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 12:39 am Hi JayTee,
At low powers, edge correction is the issue but when you get to short focal lengths, quality matters even more than at low powers. I went through several 2nd hand trial eyepieces before biting the bullet and buying a Pentax XW5. This was after comparing an XW5 to my 5mm eyepieces. They are not bad eyepieces, but the XW's are in a different class. A pair of used XW 5 & 10mm's came up for around USD230 each. I think you won't get much change out of USD400 in CONUS for a new XW. I would recommend that you go down a similar premium eyepiece path for the high mag end if you can afford it.
However, if you want a midrange eyepiece, I have two I am about to put up for sale on an Australian Astro site. I normally wouldn't sell internationally but if you are interested in one of them, I'm willing to ship international. I have a Baader Hyperion 5mm and a Meade Series 4000 4.7mm. If either of these interest you, pm me. I don't know how they compare to the newer eyepieces you are considering.
cheers
Joe
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