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Old 01-08-2010, 01:22 PM
TrevorW
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Neat setup Ken and if you plan to get into astrophotography then I'd start saving

guiding isn't crucial if you have good tracking and spot on polar alignment you can get subs up to 3 minutes easily

however I recently saw a QHY5 advertised for $250 and as far as guiding goes these and the Orion SSAG (basically a QHY5) camera's using PHD are the cheapest and simplest to use that I am aware of

this attached to a good finder even a focusable 10X50 will provided guiding on a bright star but I don't believe your mount comes with a guide port and to modify it to do so is another expense
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