Re: [APML]: LX-50-astrophotography?

["John F. Wall" <jfw@spectranet.ca>]

The Astro-Photography Mailing List
------------------------------------

Get a Losmandy GM-8 with a 8" SCT on top and your all set.  If you can
afford a good refractor, even better.  Then after your use to the mount,
pick up an ST-4 as an autoguider.  You virtually eliminate the frustration
you will encounter with lesser setups.

One thing I've learned over the past year is GET A GOOD MOUNT.  Even if you
can only do piggyback until you can afford to put a scope on it, you won't
regret it.

John Wall




At 11:14 AM 7/23/98 +0100, you wrote:
>The Astro-Photography Mailing List
>------------------------------------
>
>
>I'd like to take this one step further. I'm after a good telescope for
>astrophotography, and I've been saving for a bit of time for the 10" LX50.
>But reading the messages on this thread, they aren't entirely positive and
>glittering with praise. I simply would like an opinion for an alternative
>scope - of about 8"-10" primary mirror diameter - that is roughly in the
>same price range. Would the Celestar 8 Deluxe or Celestar 8 Computerised be
>good options? I would like to stress it would be for astrophotography (I
>suppose that's why I'm on this list!) and not just visual. Apologies if this
>is a pretty vague question.
>    Cheerz,
>
>    Andrew Mason.
>
>PS    Sorry that asks another question, and not answering one.
>
>....................
>  Andrew D. Mason
>
>E-mail - mrshift@globalnet.co.uk
>Longitude - 001°06.1' W
>Latitude - 54°11.8' N
>....................
>
>
>
>