I'd just add a few things: You'll rarely use your highest powers, not for a lack of targets, but because the seeing rarely supports it, unless you're one of those observers who gets most of your eyepiece time after 2 am. Besides planets, high powers are needed to separate the closest double-stars. The moon also offers much for the highest powers. Sometimes it takes very high powers to tease-out details from the faint fuzzies also. Some galaxies have huge nebulous formations embedded in them, and it takes high power and large aperture (and sometimes LPR filters) to see these features distinctly. My final comment is a stab at the Nagler design. It is not the sharpest, wide-field aside. I'll look up the documentation next time I'm home, if you are interested. Stick with a high-quality Ortho or Plossl for the sharpest high-power views, some others have recommended TeleVue Panoptics for best resolution. Chuck __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com