Having asked many questions for 4 months and spending countless hours researching eps, finders, etc., I finally spent my first night actually viewing with my 9.25 XLT SCT. The seeing was the best we've had in a long time.
Spent some time looking at Jupiter and various clusters and more. Ok, I did the many ep change out including my friends box and found one eyepiece that seemed to fit this scope almost perfectly, an RKE 28mm. I didn't expect this inexpensive eyepiece would actually give the views it did. I'd take it out, put in low, mid, high, ultrawide, etc. and then put it back in. I put it in my friends 8 inch dob and loved it there. I did try the 15mm RKE and it wasn't as spectacular. The 28mm seemed to just fit perfectly.
So many are correct here and elsewhere. You don't need the top dollar stuff to get good viewing in some scopes.
So I decided to get the whole set of RKE's. Edmunds website didn't have them that I could find. It wasn't until I was looking at some flyers I had at work that I realized that anchoroptics.com has taken this over from Edmunds. No, this isn't a sales pitch, I just want to thank Ivan Gastaldo for pointing out to me that slow scopes can get away with simple eps and try this route first before deciding on high dollar ones. Thanks Ivan
ps, my friend Jason Lane wrote in this forum a few threads down about his viewing experience with my Pentax 14mm XL. I didn't find the Pentax as spectacular in my scope as the RKE. So I have decided to sell Jason the Pentax for $9 million dollars. What do you think Jason? I'll give you a really good rating!!!!
Spent some time looking at Jupiter and various clusters and more. Ok, I did the many ep change out including my friends box and found one eyepiece that seemed to fit this scope almost perfectly, an RKE 28mm. I didn't expect this inexpensive eyepiece would actually give the views it did. I'd take it out, put in low, mid, high, ultrawide, etc. and then put it back in. I put it in my friends 8 inch dob and loved it there. I did try the 15mm RKE and it wasn't as spectacular. The 28mm seemed to just fit perfectly.
So many are correct here and elsewhere. You don't need the top dollar stuff to get good viewing in some scopes.
So I decided to get the whole set of RKE's. Edmunds website didn't have them that I could find. It wasn't until I was looking at some flyers I had at work that I realized that anchoroptics.com has taken this over from Edmunds. No, this isn't a sales pitch, I just want to thank Ivan Gastaldo for pointing out to me that slow scopes can get away with simple eps and try this route first before deciding on high dollar ones. Thanks Ivan
ps, my friend Jason Lane wrote in this forum a few threads down about his viewing experience with my Pentax 14mm XL. I didn't find the Pentax as spectacular in my scope as the RKE. So I have decided to sell Jason the Pentax for $9 million dollars. What do you think Jason? I'll give you a really good rating!!!!
