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Old 01-06-2017, 05:31 AM
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Originally Posted by raymo View Post
Perfectionists, and people with huge bank balances...
I'm neither, especially the latter! (Particularly after getting into this hobby...)
In my experience putting anywhere near 10kgs on an eq6 (rated at 20kgs), especially with a long ota, made it difficult to reliably get good long subs (>5mins). Of course my experience is only with Skywatcher mounts and I'm sure you could load up the likes of a PME, AP, Tak, etc mount to its limit and it will track, and guide, along happily all night.

You're right about perfectionists though and I guess it depends on your own threshold for the quality you want to produce, and the time and effort you want to spend fiddling with your setup.
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