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Originally Posted by floyd_2
At the end of it all, it looks like I'll be up for between about $1500 (ZS80II plus all ancillary gear) and $2000 (Megrez90 plus all gear).
I think I might go and do some more research 
Dean |
Hi Dean. Faced the dilemma myself recently and ended up with a Megrez 90. Cost me about $1200 from memory, but I got a great guidescope and a grab and go that has a bit of grunt. I think it would be pretty heavy on a fork, mine is SBS. If you want a good option, there have been W.O. 66mm scope OTA's on eBay for about $460 on a regular basis, (New) from QLD for the last couple of months. Would have bought one, but missed out and was forced to go up to the 9omm Megrez.
IMHO, I'd always get a good quality scope over a poor quality scope for a number of reasons. With my current set up I can swap the imaging between the main scope and the guidescope at my leisure and I like that, alot!
NB. There's a good shot of M42 through a W.O. 66mm in the Deep Space section of IIS at the moment.