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Originally Posted by barx1963
Yes EQ mounts are harder to use, need to be aligned to pole, roughly for visual, very precisely for imaging. So if you go that route you are giving yourself options to get into imaging later on, but minimum mount for successful imaging is the EQ6pro or similar which is a big initial investment.
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I just bought my girlfriend an Orion Atlas EQ-G (i.e., an EQ6) as an upgrade for her Nextar 8i mount. It's shockingly easy to polar align using the supplied polar alignment scope which was correctly adjusted right out of the box. The one, two or three star alignment is also amazingly easy to perform even if you don't know the names of any stars at all. Overall a very good little mount and rock solid with a Celestron 8-inch SCT OTA on it. On yea, I bought the little GPS unit for it. That makes it super easy. You then just have to hit enter to just about everything during start up. Nice.