[gregbradley]

Which do you think would be the better mount?
I know the MX is not in the field yet but assuming the mount matches the promo and the PME then it should be very good.

AP1200 is a bit stronger, comes preloaded with Pempro PEC curve, can image many hours past the meridian, cables go through the mount and has super low PE. It has pulse guiding which I believe is better than other types of guiding.

MX has similar PE and comes with the SkyX and Tpoint (worth about $500 by itself). It images past the meridian 2 hours and can be setup (as can the AP1200) to do a meridian flip using software and plate solving.
It is cheaper, it is fully integrated with the Sky and CCDsoft (something I like with the PME) and has direct drive which gets rid of an autoguiding cable.

It comes with 2 counterweights and I think a versaplate whereas the AP1200 is bare and needs a saddle and counterweights. So the AP1200 would end up being something like $2500 more expensive I imagine.

Is anyone in this group using an AP1200?

Thoughts?

Greg.