Re: [APML] Opinions: GP-DX or GM-8

["Tim Hart" <Tim.Hart@haworth.com>]

If you pick up the SN6 you will have a LXD55....the motors from the LXD55 will bolt on (using a shorter bolt!) onto the GP-DX....making it an Autostar/Vixen.  Something to consider.

The GM8 has an Autoguider port....very handy if you intend to go that route in the future.

Good luck, 
Tim

>>> alen_koebel@yahoo.ca 04/29/03 12:36PM >>>
I hope this is not off-topic. I am planning to buy a
GP-DX with SkySensor 2000-PC for light-duty astro-
photography. Another option for me would be a GM-8
(without the Gemini GoTo). I'm looking for opinions.

Basically, I want something that isn't too big and
daunting to setup just for telephoto lens shots with
a small guide refractor, but on the other hand isn't
too wimpy to handle, say, a C8 with a light-weight 
CCD rig, either in the Fastar focus position or with 
a focal reducer at Cassegrain focus. (I don't think
I'll be doing any film work with the C8.) I am also
considering using it - for film and/or CCD- with 
either a Meade LXD55 6" Schmidt-Newtonian OTA 
(more-or-less equivalent to the older MTS-SN6 model
I have now) or Vixen's ED114SS refractor. (I'm
favoring the 6" S-N because it's a lot cheaper, 
should give good images if its anything like my 
MTS-SN6, and at 13 lbs. weighs only a little bit more
than a C8.) 



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