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Always the way Peter...
I agree, regarding the self guided CFW.
AO is one of the other things that really seems to have disappeared over the years, I don't understand how the concept hasn't become SUPER mainstream... Tilting a small refractive element 5~10 times a second is easier and more accurate than nudging a mount once every couple of seconds, and while yes, mount technology has got to a point where guiding in many cases is not even required, from a budget perspective, a cheap 'reasonable' mount with a decent AO system is far more attainable than a ~$20,000 mount with absolute RA and DEC encoders is.
I remember having my C11 on the back of a poor old EQ6, right at the absolute limit of the capacity, and the AO-8 making my mount look like a superstar....
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