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sounds like a good plan to me. With a coma corrector, that scope should work just as well as much more expensive ones - it seems that it is possible to make quite good quality mirrors for low cost these days. The mechanical components of the scope will be lower quality than the more expensive ones, but will still do the job with a light weight camera. The AZEQ6 mount would be a good choice for imaging - it is worth getting something fairly solid.
If you want to do unattended imaging, you will need a focuser upgrade so that automatic refocusing is possible as the temperature varies. That could be either a stepper motor add-on to the existing focuser or a new unit such as a Moonlite. In the meantime though, manual focusing every half hour or so should be OK.
as has been pointed out, visual on an equatorial mount is a problem with a Newtonian - possible, but not all that convenient.
Last edited by Shiraz; 16-05-2017 at 10:44 AM.
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