Widefield eyepiece recommendations

[catburglar]

I'm in the market for a widefield eyepiece around 30-40 mm focal length. I'm considering a Skywatcher Aero ED or the Baader Aspheric. Both seem to get good reviews, does anyone have comparative experience?

My current scopes are a 150 Mak at F12 and a ZS Ed80 at around F7 so neither are too demanding.

Any thoughts, or other recommendations that won't break the bank?

[Damo636]

The Aero is a nice eyepiece & will work well at those focal ratios. I haven't used the Baader but imagine it would work equally as well.

[John]

I agree with Damo on the Aero ED. Fine eyepiece at those focal lengths. I recall a member compared an Aero ED to a Baader Aspheric quite some time back and reported that they were very similar in performance.

[twotter]

One thing I'd say with the Aspheric is that I found my 31mm very good in it's 2" format, but with the 1.25" barrel fitted I prefer my 24mm Hyperion. It suits my 200P dob but won't come to focus in my older refractor.

[htj]

I have the Baader Aspheric 36. It behaves quite well at f/9 and slower. In f/6 the edge performance takes a bit hit. It would probably do a bit better at f/7, but I would not expect good edge performance. For long, wide angle eyepiece I think the price is quite good though, and it is relatively light compared to similar eyepieces.

Have not tried the aero, so I cannot compare the two.

[cs1cjc]

I have the Baader Aspheric 36 and find it behaves very well for all my scopes with sharpness only falling off slightly at the very edge in the Newtoninans which are used with a coma corrector. David Knisely did a nice write up here: http://www.cloudynig...hp?item_id=2064