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Old 26-01-2007, 07:09 PM
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choooose my mount....

Hey there all i have a bit of a question and everybody's input would be good, thanks to Comet Mcnaught the astronomy bug has bitten me again. I currently have a 6inch f-5 achro refractor (jaegers lens) i bought this a number of years ago off a elderly gentleman who only wanted $500 for it so i snapped it up quick smart. Any way obviously it is plauged with a fair bit of CA and is no where near the quality of a apo. That being said it gives great high contrast images of dso and only starts to deteroiate around the 175-215x dependent on seeing. The question is i now would like a proper mount for it currently on a alt-az. It weights in at around 8kg's with a finderscope. I obviously would like mount able to track and hopefully goto as i would like to start using this for photo's. i will prob add another scope some time this year of better visual quality i.e. for planetary observation my prime intrest. Portability is not a great concern. anyway any comments or suggestions would be greatly accepted as at the moment i'm lost hahahaha
thanks everyone and clear sky'ssss
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