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Old 20-03-2006, 04:13 PM
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Well Sydney in Summer is cloud central, but in Winter you get quite a few nights with few clouds (just windy, light polluted and cold)! So longer duration astro-photograpthy is conceivable.

I'm interest in your thoughts of how a CG-5, LX75 and EQ6 (circa $1,200 -> $2,200 mounts) compare to a G-11 or CGE at 3 times their price with GoTo. Do you actually get 70% - 80% of their performance with auto-guiding? What is the real difference in capability and quality achieved and is this only a 20% - 30% fall off, or is it a cliff once you get into longer duration or some other more challenging task?

Anyone know or care to comment?
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