If you try to use it for fotos you will have your work ahead of you.
It will do for wide fields and really short exposures but the reason mounts are so expensive is because they have to be in effect "perfect" and the lxd is not close to perfect.
I worked on mine heaps and you could not manually track as the adjustment made it qiver so your "run" was always very short no matter how good the polar align was... get an eq6 maybe.
alex
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