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Some ideas picking between these
I posted months ago but still haven't pulled the trigger. I do though have extreme Lovejoy envy seeing all the "beginner" photos. I want to see and photograph Lovejoy, Horse Head Nebula, and pretty things of that nature. I have a good small and light APS-C DSLR already (NEX-5R).
Option 1) Skywatcher Telescopes
AZ-EQ6 Mount $2390
+ Esprit 120 $3375 (comes with a flattener as far as I can tell, I think)
or BD ED 120 $2100 + $319 flattener
or 254mm Newt $1559 + $249 coma corrector
= $5765 / $4809 / $4198
Option 2) Optics Central
Celestron CGEM mount 9.25" Edge HD SCT
= $5750
I'm really torn between the first three (quality, good quality, and "cheap" but cheerful and a pain in the butt to move around) and the last one which was my childhood style of dream scope. But apparently they're very difficult and expensive to get going for AP.
On top of this I'll need some adapter to attach my camera to prime focus, and down the track add a StarShoot Auto Guider (and finderscope as part of the kit, I read it's really troublesome to add to the SCT and I'm not sure about the others). No additional eyepieces to start with... I'd have no idea what I'd want.
I excluded some brands that were just too expensive or too complicated to put together or just not easily available; TAK, TeleVue, StellarVue, etc.
What do you think?
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