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Originally Posted by niko
Am I missing something though? Comment was made by 1pounders that it is a Alt/Az not equatorial mount. I thought a Goto system was an eqatorial setup and I could therefore use it to track objects as they move across the sky. Thus opening me up to the world of Registax etc.
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Goto setups can be both alt-az and equatorial. The celestron that you have, just like my LX200, is alt-az. To make it equatorial you will need a wedge of some sort.
The only difference between alt-az and equatorial is that you will get field rotation if you try imaging anything deep sky in alt-az. Quite often though, for any deep sky imaging the mount is more important than the scope, as you need very accurate tracking. With planetary imaging however, tracking is not important because your exposures are only a fraction of a second each.