Jamesruss13

Some great collections here! So jealous here are my babies, Olympus 10x50 which I use on a horizon 8115 tripod.

Another good point and something i was thinking myself... one of the reasons the ED80 is my idea of a dream scope is the wide field it produces, as a keen bino observer I wanted something I can still just sit back and scan the wonders of the sky with and something with better optics than I’m used to in my bins and something that I can up the mag with ( obviously being constricted to 10x with the bins). what would people recommend in terms of wide field eyepieces ( low and high power) I really like the look and the price for that matter of the BST’s. Also with low power eyepieces I’d like to take advantage of the 2inch diaganol and get as full a view as one can get, that’s why I’m willling to spend quite a bit on my lowest power eyepiece something between 30 and 40mm. Has anyone tried these out? https://www.firstlightoptics.com/skywatcher-eyepieces/skywatcher-panaview-2-eyepieces.html

Some great advice guys thanks a lot, will be sure to get a Barlow aswell! The only negative I can think of on the plossls is the field of view and only because Im used to observing with a pair of 10x50 bins on a tripod and have been for over a year now so would like as wide a field of view as one can get, with that said I suppose I could bite the bullet and get an expensive very low focal length eyepiece, something that will provide 10x 15x or even 20x mag for when I would like a ‘sky scanning’ session as I would do with the bins, maybe an ES 82 degree eyepiece or just one of the better TV range. With higher mags I know a lot of people don’t get on with the eye relief and I expect I will feel the same so may opt for BST starguiders at high mags, televue plossls in between and an expensive low power eyepiece with as much a field of view as I can get and a quality ( most probably TV) Barlow. Thanks guys any other advice regarding eyepieces is much appreciated!

Hi guys I am looking for info on televue plossls, after a lot of research on different eyepieces I would really like to get a few tvs, being the best of the best of course lol, I know they are the cheaper of the ranges but I’ve not heard a bad word about them, I will defiantly be looking to get some of the more expensive televue ranges to add to the kit when funds allow but to start with I can afford a few plossls, Scope will be a skywatcher ED80 strictly observing for now, imaging maybe at a later date. The things I’m going to be observing are planets, lunar and a few of the brighter DSOs such as M42, M31, The pleadies... just to name a few. Any advice on these eyepieces would be great, also I’m not a fan of the ‘pin hole’ type exit pupil on higher mag eyepieces so may opt for a different brand on focal lengths under 10mm