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Old 08-10-2007, 12:23 AM
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Steve,

the link Rob put in for the refractor and mount here: http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=24555

What is it you don't like about that mount so we'll know which way you want to go.

That mount is an EQ which can be motorised at a fairly cheap price for when you do want to do some Astrophotography.

And because the scope is a refractor, not a reflector, where the scope faces doesn't call for you to be a contortionist like it does with Reflectors.

Yes, it does have to be polar aligned, but that isn't all that hard, and for wide field (especially visual) near enough is often good enough. For loooong exposure Astrophotography it needs to be more accurate.

An Alt/Az mount it going to make it hard to do any Astrophotography, and you'll find it hard at higher mags to keep an object in the eyepiece for visual. Thats where EQ's are good, once an object is in there, it is only a matter of moving in R.A. or motorising it.

They even make a GoTo for those EQ3's now, so if you want some fun later on down the track, fit one and you can ask it to go to an object and it will.
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