Thanks Ken, i am now leaning towards a HEQ5 for an extra $100 or so on the price for the standard E5 with drives??
I am really looking for a cheap portable mount that i can drive to my dark sites, and set up for widefield imaging without the scope on the mount at all, which will make drift align a prob
Anyways i am deciding if the $879 is a good deal for the HEQ5, which comes with it's own s/h polar scope.
Or maybe sve some $$ and just take the ed80 out with me and do a drift align.
Why is it so hard to decide on anything astro
it does my head in all the time.