don treat said:
im trying to avoid spending money needlessly on eyepieces. so here's my question. if you could only have one eyepiece for an 8" sct what would it be? and why?
I'd sell it and buy a dob and use the extra money for eyepieces.
Note that I am NOT against SCTs, in fact I've often considered buying one. I just think paying more for a scope (compared to a dob, or even an achromatic refractor) then not being able to afford or being unwilling to buy eyepieces would be silly. It's sort of like buying a very nice socket wrench then asking which ONE socket would be most useful.
But if you had to, an SCT would be a good scope to face that choice with because you can get an f/6.3 R/C in addition to a Barlow and get three magnifications out of one eyepiece!
