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Old 02-04-2008, 07:47 AM
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Roger,

I chose not to get goto because I wanted to be able to manually move the optical tube back to a horizontal position - mainly because I wanted to be able to rotate the OTA to get the eyepiece in a comfortable position. With the goto version you would need to slew the OTA using the handcontroller.

Instead I added an Argo Navis (at about the same cost as the goto upgrade) so now have "push to". I've also added a Shoestring Astronomy autoguide port to the hand controller. Now that I've got interested in imaging the eyepiece position is less important and some nights I wish I'd got the goto - I may still upgrade one day and have both!

You should be able to get a nice setup for 10k - possibly look at getting the Losmandy G11 instead of the EQ6.

There is a very good explaination of drift alignment here:

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.p...63,405,0,0,1,0

Peter
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