What is Reddit's opinion of gazechimp 23mm 62 Degree FOV Wide Angle Lens Aspheric Eyepiece for 1.25" Telescopes?

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At F/10, thankfully you've got quite a broad selection of brands to choose from. There are only a few things I would avoid:

1. Any of the 62 degree "aspheric" eyepieces. These come in focal lengths of 23mm, 10mm, and 4mm and look like this. I bought this set from Ebay for $22 in total and they perform about as poorly as you would expect from a $7 eyepiece.

2. Avoid plossls in general. At shorter focal lengths, their eye relief gets very tight and they're hard to look through.

3. Avoid most of the generic Svbony or Astromania eyepieces you can find on Amazon. The only good ones I would recommend are the "gold lines" or "red lines". Note that these "gold lines" and "red lines" are generic eyepieces that may be sold under many different brands, not just Svbony. They are an excellent value. I did extensive comparisons between my 9mm gold line that I paid $12 for, and my $250 9mm Tele Vue DeLite even in my F/5 scope, and I could not tell them apart aside from some finicky eye placement of the gold line. At F/10 they will all work nicely.

4. Avoid the Orion Deep View eyepieces. They're overpriced for what they are (cheap 3 element Kellners).

For some specific recommendations of good quality, affordable eyepieces with decent focal length options:

1. Astro-Tech Paradigm
2. Agena Dual ED (same as the Astro-Tech, just different brand)
3. Celestron X-Cel LX
4. Explore Scientific 62 series

Those are all around 60 degree apparent field with relatively comfortable eye relief, and are good quality eyepieces that will perform perfectly at F/10. I would just avoid anything shorter than 5mm, and even at 5mm, you're pushing the scope's optics pretty hard so getting clear views will be rare.

The next step up would be to get a wider apparent field of view, or more comfortable eye relief (or both):

1. Baader Hyperion (68 degree + long eye relief)
2. Explore Scientific 82 degrees (82 degree + modest eye relief)
3. Baader Morpheus (76 degree AFOV + long eye relief "eye massage")
4. Pentax XW (70 degree AFOV + long eye relief "eye massage")
5. APM XWA (100 degree AFOV + modest eye relief)

The Hyperions are the most affordable of the bunch. A few have problems at short focal ratios, but at long focal ratios they are fine. They also have a unique spacing system that lets you customize their focal lengths.

The others are pricey eyepieces in the $200-300 range. But they are "lifetime" eyepieces that will work nicely in just about any scope.

But if you just want a decent set of eyepieces without breaking the bank, go with the Astro-Tech/Agena or Celstron X-Cel LX.

If you want to make it easy to calculate which focal lengths will give you which attributes in your scope, you can use the website I built: https://eyepieceplanner.com

That lets you specify your telescope in the tabs at the top, and then it automatically calculates magnification, exit pupil, and true field of view for most commercially available eyepieces. And then you can sort/filter by any of the attributes in the table.