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Taa, thanks,
Ignoring the Carbon Fibre vs Aluminium, it is is a $2K 10" Meade vs a $2.8K 9.25" Celestron a good proposition? The wider fireld of critical focus seems encouraging to the Celestron.
A 10" SCT has about 15% more light gathering than a 9.25" Scope (up to 19% if Meade using 10.25 over-sized mirrors is true), has mirror lock for long duration astro-photography and is $715 cheaper than the Celestron, but weights 14Kg (2kg over what I believe a CG-5 should be carrying normally. let alone for astro-imaging) or 5Kg more than than the Celestron, far better within the CG-5's carrying capacity.
The Celestron 9.25" and 14" get rave reviews for astro-imaging at this price range, hence my query to the more experienced amongst us!
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