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Hi John,
Here's my thoughts on this subject...
What size scope?
With motors for RA and DEC is preferable to manual only.
Buying a GOTO is better than installing GOTO later on...its cheaper that way.
Better yet is to buy an NEQ6 or HEQ5pro and use the hand controller to manually slew around. I did that with the NEQ6.
From my experience the NEQ6 is not that much bigger than the HEQ5pro.
Around $1K gets an NEQ6 second hand....less for the HEQ5pro.
Both are bigger than the EQ5. There was an EQ5 with dual motors going very cheap recently.
I'm very happy with an EQ3 with RA/DEC drives and a 4" f5 refractor.
Matt
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