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Originally Posted by Merlin66
Simon,
Having used many (!!!) SCT over the years I would honestly recommend a C9.25 but mounted on a HEQ5 Pro (or similar) mount.
A great combo, easily handled and very capable.
You won’t be disappointed.
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I have an Edge 9.25, but I think a Standard 9.25 would be fine. I use mine for visual gives great views, planetary with a 2.4 powermate and deepsky with a 0.7 reducer.
The edge reducer is hideously expensive but with the standard 9.25 the reducer prices are far more reasonable.
These days you can also get reasonably priced autofocusers from celestron.
It is a jack of all trades when extended with a powermate and reduced with the reducer. It wont give shots as good as a triplet for deep sky but if its only one scope you are after I think it would be fine.
I would also go with just the tube and a seperate EQ mount, for astrophotography I have never had much luck trying to use a wedge on a CPC type setup.