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Originally Posted by Camelopardalis
Following on from my earlier hint, have you considered multiple scopes? Obviously depends on what kind of AP you're interested in, but a small refractor on something like a EQ5 (or similar) will be much less of a headache than trying to nail it with a long focal length and heavy scope.
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Actually I am considering multiple scopes! (Just don't tell my wife) One of the benefits I can see to the AZEQ mount is the ability to side by side mount two scopes on the same mount to give rich field views in one and the much higer mag and consequently smaller FOV of the C925 on the other side. Along with the ability to slew manually without trashing the alignment, and or mount GEM style as the need arises.
I had thought of mounting my CPC on a wedge but it still gives only the limited FOV and single scope at once (I have thought about dovetail mounting a short refractor on the 925 but I do not know how the mount would cope) and the problems of the EP ending up in nasty spots to get to, like buried in between the forks, pointed straight up over the mount on the wedge, or more or less at the ground!
I did do an experiment with it and if I put it in EQ mode as if it is on a wedge and then do a fake one star alignment (Not actually bothering to align it, just press the align button as if I had) it takes off fat dumb and happy with the RA motor running and if well polar aligned would allow me to slew manually to my hearts content, just the goto function is toast as it is actually not pointed where it thinks it is. Even that could probably be bodged if I wanted goto to work OK for a time, just tell it to slew to a known object and then manually point the scope to it when the goto finishes.