Many thanks for all your help Steve & Chris.
I'd be very happy taking happy snaps of just of clusters alone (their my favorite things to observe). I have no desire to do planets.
Whoa Chris, thank you for going to all that trouble in that well explained post-you've helped Russ & I to make sense of it all.
No EQ mount etc for me, I don't want to get into astrophotography- I'll leave that up to you guys and just admire the pics while you all do the hard work.
