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I'm sure most of us would love to get high end gear first time around, and avoid the costly exercise of buying budget gear first and eventually spending more to upgrade later on.
But then there's others who simply can't afford to buy the high end gear. An EQ6 might be all they need and for the price, it's not a bad mount.
I carry 50kg on my EQ6 (25kg OTA + 25kg counterweights) and it does the job for long focal length planetary imaging. For deep space stuff, as long as I'm guiding it tracks fine for short focal length stuff.
And for people who aren't even considering putting a camera on the end of their telescope, they certainly wouldn't need to spend more than they need to on a mount that carries their telescope with enough capacity. If that's an HEQ5 or an EQ6, that's a good buy in my opinion.
Me, I'd love to get a high end mount. I just can't afford it so I have to work with what I've got.
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