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I don't think Larry Myers is making MI250's anymore or so I read somewhere. Correct me if I am wrong.
Definitely standard advice on mounts is to get the best mount you can afford. It is more important than the scope or camera.
First target in imaging is round stars everytime in a 10 minute image.
Its not as easy as you would think.
Tak, AP, PMX seem to dominate that band of high quality mounts.
I had Tak - I loved its user friendliness. I haven't used AP but I doubt you could go wrong there. PME and PMX are my current mounts and I like both of them, and I prefer my PME as being more robust and fuss free. But PMX is very sophisticated and may need a bit of work (not sure if PEC works out of the box, I suspect not, you may need to adjust a few things on your mount, maybe not).
Despite a few minor teething problems with the PMX I would rate it as best bang for your imaging buck in that you get a lot of software that means you can adjust and adjust with software so you are achieving super high accuracy every night. So it really suits the permanent observatory.
For portable field use setting up everytime AP may be better or Tak.
PMX will take up to a 14 inch Cassegrain which is pretty big.
Greg.
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