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Originally Posted by haydenc
P.s,
Is there a cheap guide scope that you would recommend?
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Depends on where you're imaging from.
if skies are reasonably dark and you're using a sensitive guide cam like the orion SSAG or the qhy5, you could use a 50mm finder. have a look at the classifieds, I bought mine from there.
but any short focal length refractor with 50mm or bigger aperture will do.
the guidecamera is the crucial bit. it needs to be sensitive enough to pickup guide stars, and if it has the st4 port you can use that with your mount and phd. edit, you can also use pulsguiding, bit st4 is pretty easy.
As for the HEQ5, I believe you need the eqmod driver to interface with the PC. I'm not sure, do check that as well.