Hi Guys, first time poster here and nooby. Love the site and some of the photos taken here are quite amazing
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I'm gathering some info as I'm on the market for a new EQ mount. I intend to do deepsky photography, nebulaes, wide field also to start with. I read glowing reviews and saw some fantastic photos taken on Losmandy mounts. I also checked out the SynScan EQ6. I'm going to spend a fair bit of money on a good mount but I can't decide which way to go so I'd really apreciate some feedback. Here goes my dilemna:
For roughly the same amount of Money do I get a smaller Losmandy EM8 or a larger heavier SynScan EQ6. I reckon I'll load around 10kg to 15kg on the mount. I want to do autoguiding with PHD Guiding so I guess I'll need to feedback the guiding info to the mount via a Laptop USB to RS232 cable which I already have setup and tested on manual guiding on a small goto azimutal Celestron GOTO mount via the hand controller.
On one end, the losmany is a real good mount at a price. On the other end the EQ6 is popular (but is it good) and can hold a larger load so I have room to grow for the future.
Now forgive me if this is a stupid question, but is it ok to assume that an "average" EQ mount will perfom as well as a precise EQ mount if both autoguided? If that's the case I'd be inclined to go with the EQ6. (not saying it is "average"). Autoguiding a losmandy might then be an overkill and not really better than guiding the EQ6? Unless I'm missing something and there's more to it?
What do you reckon?
