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Totally agree with you. Very rarely I can actually use an eyepiece with FL lower than 12mm, except in the moon in which I can use 9, 8 and 7mm sometimes. It has been said in this forum that they can easily reach 300x in the ETX125 (which means using a 6.3mm eyepiece): that is not my case, and I agree with you. My most used high power ep in my ETX is actually a 12mm (158x).

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I have recently used a 9mm Nagler (211x) in my ETX-125 to look at the Orion Nebula, in my light polluted skies, the view was one of the best I have had from my side yard. With the wide angle I was able to fill the entire field of view with the nebula & was able to identify Trapezium A-D.

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So you say that you use regularly the 9mm Nagler in your ETX? I am truly interested, because if so, it means that something is wrong with me, the scope, etc (no the eyepiece: I have a 8.5 Pentax XF and 8mm TV Plossl)

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Eyepiece madness: UO & L.Henzl Konigs, Supermonos, TV Plossls, Pentax XFs, RKEs, Brandon, Hyperion, and still growing...
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