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Originally Posted by Entropy
Hi guys.
Im thinking about buying an 10" LX200 and was just wondering how do you pick an appropriate guidescope for this scope?
I have a 70mm refracting telescope with a FL of 900mm, but with the LX's focal length of 2600mm, im thinking this will be entirely inappropriate, how can i remedy this, with a Barlow perhaps , or is the 70mm just going to be too small now to put a Barlow in ?
Also, my mount is advertised at being able to carry 26Kg's, does this include the counter-weights ?
Thanks for your help guys
Entropy
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You'd be better of ditching the guidescope and getting an OAG (Meade and Celestron both do these for their SCTs, so do Lumicon).