Which one(s) should I keep

I made a trade recently with a fellow club member for an 8mm Orion/Vixen superwide mostly to test it to see if I liked it. It works really well in my 10" dob with sharp stars to the edge. Lately I prefer longer eye relief EP mostly for comfort and the fact that if I'm not careful I get eyelash oil on them. I had a 13T6 which I really liked, but was constantly cleaning it, so I traded for a 12T4. My question is would I miss my 9mmT6 ( 133X ) if I decided to sell it and keep the SW? The SW give me less field but 150x. My other short FL EPs are 6,7,and 9 UO orthos and a nagler 3-6-zoom.

Thanks,

Hi Jim,
Will you miss the 9mm T-6? That depends on how much you used it and whether you could deal with the short eye relief or not.
I had problems with the t-6 Naglers myself, the same thing that you had, eyelash oils and fogging on cold nights.
I now use longer eye relief EPs. I like the 10.5mm Pentax XL and the 8.8mm UWA which is a little tight but no oil problems. The Radian EPs are also ones that I own and like.
I think that a comfortable EP is really important because and uncomfortable one does not get used.

Hi Jim.

FWIW, the 8mm Vixen (Orion) LVW (Superwide) is my favorite high power eyepiece on my 12" f/4.9 Dobsonian.

It has a nice, wide, flat field with good contrast and superior resolution edge to edge. Mine is the Orion model and on any given night it actually provides very slightly better contrast and resolution than my 10mm Radian on objects such as the E and F stars in the Trapezium.

The 8mm in particular is one of the best modles from the LVW (Superwide) line.

- Jim