[QUOTE=Somnium;1281851]It is days like these that I sit and peruse astronomy equipment manufacturers and think to myself if I wasn't better off going down a different route for my mount. Both the asa ddm85 and the ap 1100gto (maybe even with the absolute encoders included) are looking like damn fine mounts at this stage.[/QUOTE
I've yet to see a DDM85 manage to image through clouds, or beat bad seeing even!
Still, these are consumer grade dreams. As Rick suggested you will then be envying the custom offerings suited to major research programs :-)
Wanting better is natural, assuming money is the only way to achieve it is what limits us (within reason!).
Cheers
Andrew