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I ran a C11 on my EQ6 for quite some time... Worked fine, just required very careful balancing.. Having said that, would I do it again? Probably not, no..
I'd go the FLT 132 purely because if you plan to do deep sky imaging at some stage, a good quality triplet APO will almost certainly outperform an SCT... The meade 10" weights about the same as the celestron 11", so you're not saving yourself anything there..
As has been said.. Starting deep sky photography with a 2800mm F/10 scope is a nightmare.. Trust me, Thats what I did.. It was a hastle. even with the F/6.3 reducer and a 1756mm focal length, you're still in for lots of frustration, lots of hair being pulled out etc.. The upside is this... Once you can successfully image at 1756mm focal length with the SCT, when you finally wake up and realise a good quality APO is going to deliver better images, and you go from 1756mm down to 500~700mm, life will be incredibly simple... setup will be easier, guiding will be easier, achieveing high quality images will seem easier, simply because you're used to tackling big scopes, big focal lengths and zero tolerance to guide errors..
The APO will be more forgiving, more portable, more contrast, tighter stars, less hassles (no collimation problems usually, less dew issues, less cool down time for the optics..)
Once you realise that refractors are a dream, the decision before you becomes infinitely easy..
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