Thanks Brendan,
Yeah, for the last couple, I have been using the 10"skywatcher dob on the EQ6 mount to hunt out those faint fuzzy objects and then try to pull some colour out of them with an unmodded 400d. tarantula, lagoon, m22, orion etc.
Like you said however, the long and heavy tube on this particular mount tends to get beaten up a little by both wind and gravity, especially when lumped with guide scope, camera etc.
I was hoping that by going for the shorter LX200 tube, I could eliminate most of the flex and bounce.
Or am I just expecting to much from what has been a good mount so far.
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