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Old 21-03-2006, 06:00 AM
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For that price ($2-3k), it's going to be hard to find something with a good goto mount, and 5-6" of aperture.

It's quite easy to hook most good goto mounts up to a laptop, and use a planetarium program to drive the goto, but the price of the mount alone would be $1500-$2500 (EQ6 with skyscan), and so it doesn't leave a lot of budget for the scope on top.. the cheapest option would be an ED80 or ED100, but if you're after 5-6" of aperture, it'd have to be a very expensive high quality refractor, or a smaller 6" reflector.
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