[montewilson (Monte)]

Get the best mount you can for the money you are prepared to spend.

Mounts have such an easy life, you can have them for many years and they will still work as well as the day you bought them.

You can buy the best camera/scope in the world but you might as well have saved the money of you don't have the best mount.

Even if you spend a bit more now that you might have wanted too you will not regret it in the long run. Aim to have the same mount for about three or four generations of OTA/camera pairings, that is change cameras and scopes often but get a mount you will be happy with long term. This will allow you to develop your craft in stages too.

A great mount will bring out the best in your cameras and scopes but great cameras and scopes will bring out the worst in a bad mount.

I am in love with my Tak mount, the EM-200 but I have many friends with G-11's who are also very happy with theirs. Taks are not cheap but the less than 5 arc second p/e claim is true I see it all the time. For the majority of the cycle the corrections with the STV or inbuilt on the STL are less than 1". Actually I have never seen a jump (except for on windy nights) of more than about 1.2" between corrections. The 5" number is probably a range not an inter-correctional value.

Mount! Mount! Mount!