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The 10-inch is very noice. Crisp images from all around. Because I'm not familiar with a lot of the constellations, calibrating it has been a little difficult. Hopefully I can remedy that soon. Having said that, I get awesome views of Jupiter and 4 moons, I saw Uranus for the first time, as well as Neptune. Pretty special stuff. The moon is incredibly bright, without a moon filter fitted.
The Solarmax is coming. Usually takes a couple of weeks after the scope arrives. The guys at Bintel reckon that they are almost arriving at the same time as the scopes (mine was shipped directly from Meade in California, due to the backlog because of this promotion).
Another way to look at it ... if you don't need the Solarmax, you can always sell it, to recoup some of the cost of your main scope. I reckon a new one would disappear pretty quickly in the IIS classifieds.
I basically have the same plans as you do, except for the permanent housing. All I am short of is the ultrawedge, the filters, and the filter wheel. In the next 6 months though. I figure that I will work out how to use the scope first, then bolt on the Canon.
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