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Agreed Lewis, although I will admit that I have never used the older Sphinx mounts. But the SXP is very good indeed. The only 2 minor quibbles I have with it are: 1) Starbook Ten is advertised as having umpteen thousand SAO star numbers built in - it probably does, but there is no way to search by SAO number, only by Bayer designation by constellation, and 2) No automated polar alignment routine, not strictly necessary but useful for getting close to polar alignment as a first cut. The older Skysensor 2000 had both of these and I am a bit mystified as to why Vixen dropped these features.
What I was going to suggest to Jim was that he pop round, he lives just up the road, and borrow the SXP, do his normal polar alignment and a couple of 2 min unguided subs. If there are still star trails and egg shaped stars then the issue is probably his polar alignment as I think the SXP tracks pretty well. If the subs are fine then start to look at the EQ5 more closely.
I don't really do a lot of imaging, so any suggestions from anybody as to whether this is a good approach would be welcome.
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