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Originally Posted by jjjnettie
It's just that we've seen people crash and burn so many many times on this forum.
It's not just a matter of slotting the camera in and away you go.
For a scope of that focal length, prepare to spend the first hour and a half of your night in just setting up and aligning before even thinking of taking your first photo.
With my ED80, Heq5Pro, I can be set up, drift aligned, framed, focussed and imaging in 3/4 of an hour, on a good night, if nothing decides to play up.
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If out in the field, I would agree, but if in a suburban backyard you can leave the EQ6 setup and aligned and permanently under a cover, then setup and alignment takes less than half an hour and you are on your way.
With alignmaster and the new EQ6 firmware I can setup at a dark site with an EQ6 and C9.25 and be imaging within 45 minutes of parking the car.