Eyepieces with good eye relief

[steve_bham]

I'm after some eyepieces with good eye relief and have a budget of about £100 ish for each one.

Which ones would you recommend?

[Moonshane]

Televue Radians are a good buy at about that sort of cash used. 20mm of relief. I am biased though.

[steve_bham]

Sorry forgot to add in post looking to buy new rather than second hand. Had a bad experience once buying 2nd hand so reluctant to try it again

[Moonshane]

no worries mate - totally understand. what sort of fcoal length are you after?

[steve_bham]

6mm to 32 1.25" range. I can view without glasses but tried tonight and get clear views with glasses! I have an astigmatism.

[wulfrunian]

I've just bought a WO SPL 6mm for £69, they've got v good reviews but not had chance to try it yet, hopefully this week!

[John]

The Celestron X-Cel LX's get good feedback. Their eye relief is 16mm and they cost around £70 each.

They don't have a 32mm though so you might want to look at something like a 32mm Panaview for that.

[steve_bham]

I've just bought a WO SPL 6mm for £69, they've got v good reviews but not had chance to try it yet, hopefully this week!

If you go Thursday I might take a look through it

[steve_bham]

Are the hyperions any good?

[4lefts]

another vote for the celestron x-cel lxs - i can use those with my specs on and there's eye relief to spare. i have the 9 and the 25.

[steve_bham]

I'll google the xcels and have a look thanks

[John]

Are the hyperions any good?

They are great in scopes of F/7 or slower. In faster ones (I see yours is F/5) they show quite a lot of astigmatism in the outer 25% of the field of view. I believe the X-Cel LX's are better in this respect than the Hyperions but even they won't be perfect in an F/5 scope.

[John]

I'll google the xcels and have a look thanks

Go for the X-Cel LX's. The X-Cel's were an older model and not so good.

[steve_bham]

Thanks John, they look quite good eyepieces.

[Woza]

Hi steve, how did you get on with buying new lenses, looking to buy some for my skywatcher st f5 150 refractor, I brought it second hand and it came with the 2 basic 25mm & 10mm and also a 9mm X-cel LX which i'm not very impressed with, so looking to get some good quality lenses that are good for f5's, not having much look on searching the net for info. Some 1 mentioned bst explorers any 1 else tried these. They dont seem to exspensive but like your self I dont mind spending up to 100.

[Qualia]

May not help, but on my f10 the LXs work a dream. They have an excellence of clarity, sharpness and contrast; there is no ghosting, distortion, internal glare or loss of image at the edges. The twist-up eyecup is designed for comfort, and it works. It has no effect on the eyepiece itself, but simply means you can swiftly adjust it to your own comfort zone and is so much more preferable to the flip-up eyecup of say, the Hyperion, or the fixed and static eyecup of a Plossl.

[tjr]

I've only heard good reviews of X-Cels...

[rwilkey]

The BST Explorers/StarGuiders are excellent ep's and work well at f/5, they are the best value for money ep's on the current market, also work well in slower scopes.