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Originally Posted by FredSnerd
EQ Mounts do seem complicated to manouver though and somewhat more difficult to lug around - Is what I'm thinking
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It seems that you are only going to be using the scope for visual ?
If so, then only go the fork mount, and if you want to try simple but very effective imaging then you can use a fork mount with an astro video of some sort like a Mallincam, Stellacam, gstar. or put the scope on a wedge.
The video systems are the go to enhance your viewing pleasure especially in light polluted environments.
My LX200R 12 inch-coupled with a Mallincam hypercolour cooled video is a deep sky killing machine
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Claude, I have had no issues with my 12 LX200 mount in the two years, and I have several friends with LX200 scopes who use either fork mount/field derotators to various success, or wedge mount with very good results too plain old ALT/AZ forkmounts for visual or Astrovideo systems with great success.
A good friend of mine PeterM on this site has used his LX200 12 inch in Alt/Az mode and doing 25 second exposures has discovered 3 super novas and he has used his scope probally 3 to 6 hrs a night for over 400 nights in 3 odd years with no problems.
Yes they are not perfect for long, many hrs of exposure imaging but for what I think your after it fits the bill.
Matt.