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Old 24-05-2010, 12:47 PM
Solanum
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Wedge

When using a Meade/Celestron or similar SCT as a general purpose visual and photography scope the alt-az fork mount is obviously no good for long exposure DSO photography. My question is would one be better to buy a different equatorial mount or use a 'wedge' to tip the alt-az mount to equatorial?

In other words does anyone have an opinion regarding the trade off between using a wedge for photography and the hassle of setting up an equatorial for visual observing?

Lets assume a 50:50 split in use between visual and photography.
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