[koputai (Jason)]

It's almost time to buy a better mount (to get into astrophotography)
and I'm weighing up the contenders.
Lots of people around here seem to get awesome results from the EQ6
Pro, yet a lot of folks say it's a beginners mount, and you have to get a
Losmandy.
In Ron Wodaski's book, he says the Losmandy GM8 is useless, and even
the G11 is a mediocre performer. I'd say his book was written before the
EQ6Pro came out, so I don't know what he'd say about that mount.

As far as the load it needs to carry:
Guide camera wise, I'm thinking of running a 60mm or 80mm refractor as
a guidescope with an SBIG ST-5C guider as I already have these. For the
imaging scope I'll use my existing 8 inch Newt for a while, then go to
either a VC200L or a 130mm-ish refractor. Camera, possibly a DSI III Pro
initially, then something like a QHY-8 or similar.

I'm pretty sure any of the above mounts would carry this load quite well,
so is it worth going with a Losmandy over the EQ6?

Cheers,
Jason.