Hey coldspace it was yerself I was refering to in my initial post
I know ages ago I looked at the mallincam and it does indeed look like a great bit of kit (and I did a bit of reading and looking at the results at the time) but the only thing that put me off was that the output wasn't digital. But aside from that as you said it looks like it deliver great results in light poluted Brisvegas far and beyond what the humble naked eye could resolve (I know my attempts at Galaxies on the soutside have so far been in vain).
Been looking and reading about alternative mount types - e.g
http://home.earthlink.net/~indig/Des...Mountings.html (and awhile ago had toyed with a DIY job - but got heaps of other "projects" to keep me busy) and just thought for $1500 the EQ6Pro looked a cheap way to go. Pity it's not an ideal solution for the price