hey,
for those that have not followed my newbie entry into the arena,i bought a ed80 and the skywatcher eq6 mount and although i haven't got much use yet I'm just a bit bored at work and musing over my future plans.
the plan is to keep using the Ed80 for astrophotography when I get experienced enough, but I do want something with a bit of size for visual observing for funs sake.
I was going to go down the meade route but recently found out that apparently the celestron sct's are a bit lighter, which may be a factor with my mount? Although bintel seem to think the eq6 with the 80ed + a 10" sct will be fine.
I don't mind spending a bit of cash as this is something that should last me a heck of a long time. obviously buying as an ota.
So the options appear to be ;
Meade 8" LX200R
Meade 10" LX200R
or
Celestron CPC11XLT 11"
Celestron 9.25"
What would you do in my scenario?
I've got a big chunk of annual leave over dec/jan and have an evil temptation to buy it to have it arrive by then although I will do my best to somehow try and look through some first.
cheers