Hi,
Just to make things a bit clearer here by my understanding of what Lagaandy's means by tracking or guiding.
This, I think he means is to the mounts ability to track an object in the sky.
You do not need an auto guider with the skywatch mounts to take reasonable photos, at least up to 60 second exposures with it unguided as long as the aligment is tight (You wont be stuck at the eyepice or screen, only check the image or eyepiece periodically). The Skywatch HE5Q & NEQ6 scopes also have PEC - Periodic error correction for the gears and motor for accurate guiding with out the auto guider. As I said before I am using a NEQ6 Pro with a Meade LX10 203mm on it and have been aquiring some reasonale shots with out auto guiding. (not to say that I don't want to, just waiting on some extra money to pay for a good one
).
Rod