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Old 17-11-2007, 07:27 PM
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Neither of these scopes would be suitable. As Alchemy says above you would quickly find how unsuitable they are, especially for astrophotography. Mounts are important, they need to be rigid to dampen vibrations quickly and knowing those scopes I doubt very much they would do that as they are rather lightweight. And you will need dual axis drives. Single axis RA only drives are really only good for visual observing activities, where it doesn't matter so much if there is a bit of slow drift.

The best advice I ever saw was something like this:
1) Choose the mount
2) then choose the camera
3) choose telescope last to suit camera.

Its hard sometimes to make people understand what is needed and why people go to so much expense if they are serious about imaging, but I guess some people just can't wait, and they are usually the people who end up spending more than they had to than if they'd slowed down just a little.

It's also depends on what kind of imaging you want to do. If you want to do everything you're probably going to need several different cameras and mounts!
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