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I just figured if I was going to all this effort, I may as well pick up a couple inches.

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I keep tellin' myself that

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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

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One thing to keep in mind is SCT's shorter tube and moment of inertia would make a (slight?) difference. fwiw for my recent re-introduction into astro imaging (from film days years back), I'm leaning heavily towards beefy mount and small scope combo.

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~Peter~

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