Telescope Reviews: Re: Best choice for Astrophotography

The mount with the C8-SGT is very easy to polar align.

For visual use, you can just set it up and use the mount's alt and az controls to point at Polaris. After that, the mount will track just fine, even at higher powers.

For solar observing during the day, I don't even do that much. I just set the mount up so that it's pointing north and guess at the altitude. That allows me to easily track the sun for 15-30 minutes at a time with my PST.

If you want to get a fairly accurate polar alignment, I would skip the polar alignment scope. The hand controller has a polar alignment routine built into it that uses the main scope. This is much more accurate than the polar alignment scope and only takes 5 to 10 mintes. Once you do this, the mount would track visually all night long.

I bought my mount as part of a C6-SGT. I've since mounted my C8 on it, and I think it's an ideal combination between scope and mount.

Thanks,
-Wade

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Visual Stuff (shared with wife and kids, 10 & 12): Generic 6" F/8 Dob, C8-SGT, CGE-1400, Orion ED80 on a CG5-GT, Coronado PST, 6" Meade Schmidt-Newtonian, Astroscan, 12x70 Binoculars.

Imaging Stuff: Meade 8" LX200ACF with Optec TCF-S focuser on a CGE mount, SBIG ST-10XME with CFW8 and remote guide head, Astro-Tech AT66ED guide scope, Astrodon filters, DSI Pro, Canon EOS 20D.

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