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Hi Geoff. I'll handle a couple here. A meade 8" SCT will normally come with UHTC off the shelf, whereas you used to pay for it as an extra. I have never had a Celestron 8" but I do have a Meade 8" SCT, and it's great for me. It's light and easy to handle, produces images I'm happy with and is reasonably priced. If I had to by another scope tomorrow if something happened to this one, I'd have no doubts in getting it again. I had an 8" LX200GPS and when I sold it I bought the 8" OTA again (I particularly like the inbuilt mirror lock ). I find it a good all round scope for both visual and imaging. It's not up there with the best but then I didn't pay thousands and thousands of dollars for it either.
If you are prime focusing your Nikon 35 then you're set to start for DSOs, so maybe look at a ToUcam/Neximager/LPI or similar for planetary and later with guidescope for autoguiding. Both mounts you mentioned can be autoguided.
Good luck with your choices
Last edited by [1ponders]; 29-03-2006 at 05:15 PM.
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