Published:
May 23, 2011
 Chris Raymond A 2" eyepiece delivers a wider true field of view (the actual amount of sky visible) than a 1¼" eyepiece of the same focal length.
A wider true field of view means you have to manually move your scope less often to follow objects as Earth rotates.
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