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Thanks to you all for the feedback. You've provided me with a lot of food for thought and in conjunction with some brief research today I've modified my thoughts slightly.
The mount decision is definitely locked in with an NEQ6. I don't think there's any debate with this.
Hi Matthew, thanks for your reply, yeah I did look at the off-axis guider option, but now I've given the OTA more thought, as well as recommendations here, I've ditched the idea of using the 10" OTA due to the issues of flexure which I hadn't immediately realised so thanks to those for highlighting it for me. I also read about another issue from time to time where it doesn't take much to reach the maximum capacity of the mount very quickly when you are slowly adding on gear. I haven't weighed my current 10" f5 OTA but based on BinTel's 10" f4 imaging OTA (which is 15kg), mine would have to easily exceed that weight. So rather than sacrificing a complete 10" Dob setup just to gain a 'free' OTA, I'll leave the Dob complete and sell it off (look out in the IIS Classifieds for a bargain soon).
I'll look at a couple of alternatives such as either the 8" f4 BinTel carbon fibre astrograph, or travel down the refractor path with an ED80? any more thoughts on which way to go with the OTA? Newt or a smaller 80mm refractor?
Good suggestion Jay. With the actual camera I'm going to revert to my trusty (almost new) 450D to start off with and progress to a more expensive camera down the track.
Last edited by stephenb; 01-07-2012 at 12:09 PM.
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