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MtnGoat
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Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT?
      08/06/08 01:43 PM

Yes, aperture wise, I've been happy with the results from the poorly mounted Z12. I just figured if I was going to all this effort, I may as well pick up a couple inches.

What I'm starting to take home from this is that there is little way to do photography at this aperture scale without $$x$$. The GEM's are preferred so far, and one for the Z12 is hyper expensive, and a comparable CAT OTA is not going to be any lighter that I can see, so I wind up on the same $$$ mount anyway.

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Edited by MtnGoat (08/06/08 01:44 PM)

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* Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? MtnGoat 08/06/08 12:01 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? rmollise   08/06/08 06:12 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? David Pavlich   08/06/08 10:57 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? Hal Pollner   08/07/08 10:46 AM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? David Pavlich   08/07/08 08:52 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? Al Canarelli   08/07/08 10:29 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? mclewis1   08/07/08 03:44 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? Hal Pollner   08/07/08 04:21 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? sang33ta   08/07/08 05:07 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? MtnGoat   08/07/08 12:12 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? rmollise   08/07/08 06:02 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? Rick Woods   08/07/08 02:09 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? Jeff Young   08/07/08 02:37 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? MtnGoat   08/07/08 02:28 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" tim53   08/07/08 01:03 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" MtnGoat   08/07/08 01:28 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" tim53   08/07/08 06:30 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? Wmacky   08/07/08 12:05 AM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? sang33ta   08/06/08 12:34 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? MtnGoat   08/06/08 12:44 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? MtnGoat   08/06/08 12:46 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? core   08/06/08 01:35 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? MtnGoat   08/06/08 01:43 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? core   08/06/08 01:53 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? mclewis1   08/06/08 03:25 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? Rick Woods   08/06/08 04:16 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" tim53   08/06/08 04:50 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" Kolenka   08/06/08 01:23 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? yg1968   08/06/08 12:11 PM
. * Re: Best for photography...Meade or Celestron 14" SCT? MtnGoat   08/06/08 12:38 PM

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