I am soon travelling to a dark site for a week and leaving my dob behind. My refractor will come instead, an 80ed f/6.25 (fl 500mm).
I am trying to decide what eyepieces to take as ideally I would prefer to keep it to a minimum.
I do not plan on viewing anything at high power, that is not what this scope is for.
I am thinking of magnification and exit pupil and what I have used already with this scope and have settled on the following although I think one or two are possibly redundant:
17.5mm or 18.2mm
12.5mm
10mm or 9mm
7mm
5mm
I could go higher than the 5mm with a 3x focal extender on other eps but on this scope I prefer to keep thing light.
I would like to mainly view dso and clusters and could only think that going higher than x 100 would be beneficial on globulars. I could also go lower but do not think that would be necessary as I have never felt the need for less than x 27.
I am very well aware I could be wrong and your thoughts and opinions would be much appreciated.
Edited by T-rav82, 29 April 2025 - 11:46 PM.