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The difficulty in using wedges with fork mounted SCTs is that the eyepiece/camera position ends up between the forks when pointed in the deep South.
Having used a wedge with forks for almost a decade now I'm keen to get back to a german equatorial mount as it was always so easy to observe/image in the deep South with one.
The alt/az computerised fork mounts do look attractive for visual use as the setup is much easier than a equatorial mounting. Having said that, the 11" SCT tube with forks attached must be pretty heavy. At least with a GEM you can detach the OTA from the mount.
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