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Happy with mount... now for the OTA...
I've settled on buying a Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro equatorial mount with SynScan goto system.
Now I' just need to decide on an OTA to bung on it.
The simplest/cheapest option will be (as you suggest, wasyoungonce) a short fast Newtonian (e.g. a 200mm job for about $600).
I'm pondering the merits of still getting a Cassegrain or Maksutov scope, and putting a FL reducer on it, though, as the advantages in optics, compactness of the instrument, and being able to hang all my gear off the back end of the scope rather than sideways from a Newtonian's focuser assembly, and the ability to use the scope for narrower field deep sky viewing are tending to sway me...
Any thoughts?
Chris
P.S: I really can't justify the cost of a Losmandy mount, despite agreeing they are obviously very very nice. :-)
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