A 6" refractor is a big bugger of a thing, I've been using one for solar and I really underestimated just how big they are.
All of those scopes are lovely beasts, but as said repeatedly here, a mount is going to be expensive for it.
A few questions before making recommendations...
1) What targets are you interested in photographing?
2) How dark are your skies?
3) What is your current experience level with astrophotography?
Cheers
-Peter
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Originally Posted by johnnyt123
Wow I am overwhelmed with everyone's appreciated input.
Rally brought to my attention Takahashi TOA150.
This is a great scope and I know it is outside my 7k budget but I feel this will be one that I may be happy with for a very long time.
Takahashi and unquestionable in they're color correction and quality.
But furthermore I hadn't really considered everything in detail regarding the type of idealic setup I am hoping for. So all up I think conservatively I need to budget 20k. I can definitely feel that black hole in my pocket feeding on my wallet.....
But I thought I had to start somewhere and I thought a really good scope might be the thing to start with.
I will continue to look into this. If anyone has or knows of a fully functioning electronically driven fully automated setup of this caliber could you please bring it to my attention.
Once again I appreciate everyone's help.
Johnny
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