Hey Matt, yeah the primary mirror lock on the meade was one of the main reasons I was headed in their direction, along with the clean optics.
EdgeHD stuff for celestron evens that out a bit, but is a hell of a lot more expensive and probably out of my price range unless i come down in size, which i didn't really want to do.
Though the fastar/hyperstar stuff for the celestrons still keeps their regular OTA's heavily in the picture. It's all going to be a trade off one way or the other I suppose.
I live in Sydney, so i'll be all over the place from locally to travelling a bit so the skies will vary a lot i would imagine.
Target wise it will be planetary stuff and the easier (and larger/brighter) DSO's. I wouldn't attempt to do the harder stuff without more specialised gear, which will come later its part of the eventual plans too
