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Thanks Mick for posting those shots, given me some ideas about how to mount the Orion now. That is a job I need to attend to soon as the Orion is still in its packing box and waiting its first real use as a guide scope.
Striker we use all these add on scopes for multiple imaging and for guiding.
The finder scope that Meade supply is ok for getting you in the right neighbourhood, but you cannot use it as a guidscope for long exposure photography. In addition something like the orion is good for taking wide field shots and doing work on the planets. Schmidt cassigrains are notorious for being hard to collimate so for me the Orion is a scope that can be utilised to take planetary images which are ultra sharp.
Incidently when I say hard to collimate, I mean for the level required for planetary imaging. To get great shots the scope must be collimated beyond f20 on an f10 scope. F10 collimation is fine for viewing and doing deep sky astrophotography, but it needs to be really good for high magnification work. having a good quality refractor takes a lot of that trouble away.
Hope that makes sense.
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