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Old 02-09-2007, 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by janoskiss View Post
An 8" GSO Dob would fit the bill for visual. If you want to dabble in astrophotography as well, I'd opt for an ED80 on EQ5 or better + DSLR alongside the Dob. For astrophotography you don't need a big scope and small scope will be lot easier to work with.
You took the words straight from my mouth Steve!

Thorsdad, an ED80 is one of the finest cheap Astrophotography scopes out there!

Plop it on an EQ5 (which comes with GoTo these days) and you have a nice lightweight EQ GoTo Astrophotography kit, all at a good price.

If you end up wanting to take loooooooong exposures of more than about 2 minutes you may need guiding, but that's off in the future.
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