BEST EYE PIECES

[lindon uk]

Hi all, can anyone suggest the best eye pieces for my "SKYMAX 127 GOTO", the one's that came with it seem a liittle dark

10mm

25mm

30mm

2x barlow

Thanks.

[John]

What sort of budget are you thinking of ? - eyepieces range from £20 to £600 each !

When you say your current ones are "a little dark", could you explain a bit more ? - what objects have you observed that you feel look too dark ?.

[lindon uk]

Hi i have a budget of about £150

[Space Hopper]

Keep saving

If you want the best eyepieces for your scope,

it's four figure territory i'm afraid.

TB

[AndyH]

The good news is you have a 'slow' focal length scope, so you don't need to buy super duper, expensive, eyepieces to get good views. Good quality plossl's and orthos, etc, will do the job very well.

I think your scope is limited to 1.25" eyepieces, so a 32mm Plossl will give the lowest power widest field of view. 47x

A good 15mm plossl = 100x. Add a 2x barlow and you get probably the highest power usable in the UK skies of 200x.

A 9 or 10mm eyepiece will give 167x or 150x. Or get a 20mm and use the barlow. Good magnification for planets.

No need to spend the earth on eyepieces for a 1500FL scope.

Andy.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

At the lower end consider a TMB planetary 9mm or similar design. It does not cost the earth, and has better eye relief (larger distance between rear lens and ideal position of the eye). I did not like my 10mm Plossl's very short eye relief at all. Alternatively, use a 20 mm and a good barlow (which should retain the higher eye relief of that Plossl).

[steve_bham]

My scope is F10 1500mm and i use the SW 40mm and 32mm plossl's and the set of extra flat.I cant fault the views from them they are bright and good eye relief so dont think you have to spend mega bucks to get decent EP's

[catburglar]

I used to have a ETX105 which had a 1470mm focal length. My favourite eyepiece was a TV 8-24mm zoom. It covered virtually the full useful magnification range, and was par focal across the complete zoom range. It was ultra convenient.

Baader do a similar zoom that seems to get good comments, and has a wider FoV than the TV model.

[Pete Presland]

my advice,not that i am a expert!would be get a good quality Barlow and every eyepiece you get after that will count as two when you use the Barlow.

the celestron ultima is a bit steep around £80, maybe 2nd hand ? forums like this are brilliant places for picking good quality eyepeices as people upgrade to televue ones