Hi everyone,
I'm soon to become the proud owner of a shiny new 8" LX200-ACF, and as I would like to take some deep sky photos with it, I'm going to need either a good quality equatorial wedge, or (and I only just discovered they exist) a de-rotator.
Given that the current price of the Meade Ultrawedge and the Meade field derotator are very nearly the same, I was wondering if anyone would care to offer an opinion as to which is the more sensible option?
I'm currently using a little 130mm Newtonian on an EQ mount, and so am at one with the pain of polar aligning every time I take it outside... thus please don't feel the need to let the "he should suffer through polar alignment like we all had to" factor influence your decision. :-)
The third option would be the "non-ultra" Meade wedge... at about a third of the cost of an ultrawedge or derotator, though I worry the build quality is somewhat inferior.
Thoughts??
Cheers,
Chris
