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Originally Posted by wolfthun
Thanks to all for the great feedback.
I'd be interested in more info on the comments casstony made on the setup side of things. Cheers
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Wolfthun, understand I'm not trying to dissuade you at all from going the whole hog - if you're keen, go for it. I imagine there's a high level of satisfaction to be gained from producing nice images. I've only dabbled a little in imaging, just enough to get a glimpse of the effort needed to get good images and decide it was not for me.
I'm a lazy observer and quite like to roll the dob out on a trolley and just wander along the milky way. Takes 2 or 3 minutes to set up. As simple as the goto LX90 is, it still takes more time to set up and get aligned, only a few minutes more but more just the same.
I don't own a goto eq. mount so I'll let others provide details of set up and alignment, but there are more pieces to carry and assemble and the alignment procedure is more involved than my LX90. Imaging requires more than just a rough alignment too. Then there's the laptop and image processing. Focussing. Guiding. Just more effort than I'm interested in.
P.S. I do like GEMs, but I haven't owned a goto GEM.