[Karls48 (Karl)]

Hi Brian. I have to concur with jjjnettie. GStar CCD camera would be your best bet. This camera gives you almost live views (2.5 second delay) on your computer monitor and allows you to see stars about three magnitude fainter then you would see by using eyepiece. GStar is re-baggage Mintron security camera. Mallicam and Astrovid are same camera heavily modified and lot more expensive.
After work accident I have great difficulty to bend and spending all night peering to the eyepiece is impossible for me. And my eyesight is also failing. I use following setup to do my observing and to take images.
Mount - HEQ5Pro
Telescope – Skywatcher 120 X 600 refractor
Camera – GStar
Six years old Toshiba laptop with AverTV Cardbus Plus video capture card.
Old car battery that was not good enough to crank the engine but its OK to run the scope and camera whole night.
I also use smaller cheap guide scope and QGuider camera for guiding, but it is not necessary for observing.
Whole setup is on permanent pier in my backyard and after observing session I just cover the mount and scope with garbage bag and two plastic trampolines and that’s it. About once week I uncover the scope and leave it for half a day in sunshine so mould does not form on the lenses (hopefully). To start observing I just uncover the scope, plug in the power, computer and camera, do one star alignment, connect to SkyMap planetarium program and from then on I control the scope with computer. Slewing to different objects will almost always put object in cameras FOV.
I have 8”LX90 and although I love views from it I use it very seldom because hassle of setting it up.
Have look on http://www.myastroshop.com.au and feel free to contact me if you need more info.
Regards
Karl