To venture a little further off topic, You know what needs to be done? Amateur aimed equatorial fork mounts with relatively high quality gearing and tracking...
Equatorial forks are the way to go for an advanced imaging system, meridian flips are such a pain in the backside... wouldn't it be fantastic to have a small fork mount (say, the size and capacity rating of a G11) to strap your imaging system to... Lock it onto a target at dusk, and go out and collect your data at dawn... no interuptions, no flips with messy re-centering and rotation to be aware of, no balance differences from east to west imaging... just tracking straight through... That would be golden...
Mathis make big EQ forks, as do one or two other companies, but nothing you would consider to be within the grasp of an amateur.. For an amateur, your best bet is modifying an LX200 mount to carry something smaller, and as we are all aware, they are definitely not the highest accuracy mounts available!
