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The other thing I'm going to suggest straight up is to look at off-axis guiding (get a QHY5ii L-m for guiding- fantastic and good price). I was running a guidescope before with an 80mm refractor and in my opinion the difference in guiding was night and day. There is science behind this as well as to why this happens. OAG is not as scary or any harder to setup as some might think.
Should just be able to use your camera (do you have a canon or nikkon dslr?)
Next is software-
(Free)
ASCOM platform
EQMOD
Stellarium Scope
Stellarium
PHD2
Deep sky stacker
($$ but recommended)
Alignmaster (about $20)
Backyard EOS/Nikkon if running one of those ( ~$50) which i would recommend first up anyway. less issues with software with those manufactures.
I use Sequence Generator Pro instead of Backyard now and for $99USD i would highly recommend this option over Backyard.
TeamViewer - because sitting in the cold sucks! Or you might need some remote help.
Choice of image editing software. I use pixinsight which is fantastic and covers preprocessing as well but is $$$
Last edited by _Jimmy; 31-08-2017 at 03:52 PM.
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