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Originally Posted by thorsdad
Would love to take photos of what we see, so I understand a solid mount is a good idea, hence a reflector on eq mount rather that a dob
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Yes a dob is of no use to you, perhaps an SCT? A second hand one even. These are very versatile as you can mount a camera on top "using the camera's own lens" or stick the camera up it's tailpipe. The latter can be a bit of a problem on the fork-mount scopes but is not an issue on the german mounts like the EQ5. If you have a few grand to play with you could get a nice setup indeed but ring around. A scope can vary 10~30% depending on which shop you go to. With a motor driven equatorial you will also be able to spend you time "looking at" rather than "looking for" things.
Do a lot of investigating before you get into photography though, snapshots can be done cheap but you will need to spend BIG bucks to get high quality photos. the difference starts with the mount and a good mount for hi quality photography will set you back $6000, $8000, etc. But like I say, this is for hi quality. Have a look around the deep space section here, compare the photos with the scopes in the signatures and you will get an idea.
Frank.