Richard, are you pitching for some kind of group photo or what!?
Once you've recovered from your group hug, and if you're not too
fragile yet, might I ask you for a bit of eyepiece advice? ;-)
There's a Pentax 10.5mm for sale used, listed at the following Web
site ( that Canada-Wide Astro one ).
The seller asks for $350.00 - mint condition. I don't remember the
exact details you already gave me, so three questions pop up:
In your opinion...
1- Price is reasonable or not?
2- How does the 10.5 do on planets - were you saying Ortho-like?
3- I still have the 10mm Speers-Waller - has comfortable eye relief
for me. Ignoring the eye relief, is Pentax 10.5 substantially better?
( you've had both ).
Have a good weekend and say hello to Judith...
Photonically,
Rol