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Astrophotography and Sketching >> Beginning and Intermediate Imaging

mark Jimenez
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Re: First setup - Start big or small?
      10/14/09 09:38 AM

I agree, as it has been said many times, the mount is key. Id love for santa to bring me a new CGE this year, but it aint gonna happen. The best I can hope for is a used Atlas, maybe....
We just have to work within budgets, a shiny new CGEM is a lot less fun to play with if you cant afford a scope or camera to mount on it .
many of us start with the ASGT, you MUST respect its limits, if you do, it will give satifactory results. I will say, however, there is a good chance it wont be long before you are lusting after something more substantial.

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Astro Tech 8" f4 Newt
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Meade DSI pro

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* First setup - Start big or small? NKT 10/09/09 08:38 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? Hrundi   10/09/09 09:20 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? NKT   10/09/09 09:32 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? mark Jimenez   10/09/09 09:45 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? DaemonGPF   10/09/09 10:24 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? NKT   10/09/09 10:55 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? RobertED   10/09/09 11:59 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? NKT   10/09/09 12:17 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? yock1960   10/09/09 02:53 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? NKT   10/09/09 08:12 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? DaemonGPF   10/09/09 08:15 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? NKT   10/09/09 08:21 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? DaemonGPF   10/10/09 12:36 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? NKT   10/10/09 10:50 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? NKT   10/12/09 09:34 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? Hrundi   10/12/09 10:59 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? Doubleglaze   10/13/09 04:30 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? NKT   10/13/09 05:01 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? mark Jimenez   10/13/09 06:16 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? NKT   10/13/09 06:19 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? DaemonGPF   10/13/09 08:18 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? mark Jimenez   10/13/09 09:21 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? nik hodges   10/14/09 08:23 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? NKT   10/14/09 08:33 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? mark Jimenez   10/14/09 09:38 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? NKT   10/14/09 10:00 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? mark Jimenez   10/14/09 10:12 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? NKT   10/12/09 12:29 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? John Wunderlin   10/13/09 12:32 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? NKT   10/13/09 08:35 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? John Wunderlin   10/13/09 10:54 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? NKT   10/13/09 11:23 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? John Wunderlin   10/13/09 11:29 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? NKT   10/13/09 11:30 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? NKT   10/13/09 01:04 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? John Wunderlin   10/13/09 01:45 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? mark Jimenez   10/13/09 04:19 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? John Wunderlin   10/13/09 10:45 AM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? Hrundi   10/09/09 08:31 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? mark Jimenez   10/09/09 08:41 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? nobbygon   10/09/09 11:10 PM
. * Re: First setup - Start big or small? Richard Turner   10/10/09 11:28 AM

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