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I used a 10" and 12" Lx200 on the orgional fork/ HD wedge/ HD tripod (cut-down) for many years - for spectroscopy.
If the OTA and forks are well balanced, and the forks are checked and dowelled for orthagonal alignment - under PHD guiding it worked very well for me.
At f10 I could keep a target star image on a 25 micron slit indefinately......
For AP the slow f10 is not suited for DSO but you'll find many excellent planetary/ lunar images taken with similar SCT's.
Even with the std x0.63 reducer (use a Celestron to make sure of the focal length!) the FOV in larger cameras will not be ideal. The Optec NextGen reducers are much better. BUT, its still an f6.3 system...good for galaxies and close ups etc and not for wide field stuff (mount a camera lens piggyback for those targets.)
I finally dumped the LX200 (limited back of cell clearance for spectroscopes) and mounted initially the 10" on a NEQ6pro....later upgraded to a C11.
HTH
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