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Old 11-02-2008, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by edwardsdj View Post
Hi Jase,

That looks like an expensive toy to me. You can get alt-az goto scopes of larger apeture for less than half that cost.

You could certainly get some shots of the Sun and the Moon through this though

If you are really interested in astrophotography, you really need a driven equatorial mounting.

Visually, you're not going to see much through the 90mm apeture.

Have fun,
Doug
Perfectly right
For 1.5k$ you can have a lot more aperture (for visual observing).
But for deep sky photography.... tracking on equatorial is essential.
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