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Originally Posted by Bassnut
Actually, its seems unfortunate you got "lumbered" with an FLI now that your thinking of AO Greg  .
SBIG STLX would have made AO a snack with a lot less money (and back focus)  . |
That's funny Fred. Yes there is some truth to that in that FLI do not do autoguiding which is annoying. It leaves only Starlight Express unit as an option and frankly I am bit nervous about that. But as far cost goes I don't see your argument there. 65mm filters from Astrodon are really expensive ($2750 or so) plus add in 65mm narrowbands and the extra adds up even more. Plus I think the STXL costs more than a Proline don't they? Backfocus - yes true. SBIG is defintely a nicely competitive system now. They definitely were lagging before but it seems they have a matching camera now but with more autoguiding solutions. Mind you the MMOAG is not really a problem. It works well. Competition is good.
Greg.