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That is correct, but that wasn't really the point of what I meant, obviously taking M104 with f/2 will give you a huge FOV, that is beautiful in its own way, but it really wasn't what I meant when I said I'll be imaging at f/2. What I meant is that in most cases I will be using the f/2 to image, as that's the common FOV of the targets I like imaging. Regarding the hyperstar, you might be right, in my opinion any imaging is challenging in its own way, adding the f/2 into it, and you're dealing with an incredibly complex imaging system, it's not going to be a refractor, and I don't expect it to be a refractor, still, the amount of light you can gather with it is simply huge. I had the chance to image with 2 friends of mine which uses the hyperstar, and yes it's not an easy set up, but I don't think it's as complex as people claim it to be.

C14 on EQ6???? How is that even possible? The maximum payload is around 20kg, and the C14 tube itself is about 22kg, that makes no sense to me? Am I missing something? Yeah I used $ cause I wanted to make it pretty much readable to most I'll need to still consider that, I'm not even sure about shipping options available for me, but I'll give it a further look, thanks! As for the wedge, I wouldn't say it's workink 'outside it's primary design', you can say the same about the hyperstar, but that's what it was built for. I don't know if the wedge is good/bad, but it 'should' work. Not sure I agree with that 😀 More scopes might be more fun, but it's also very expensive, as for the eyepiece analogy, I'd say it's only half true That's a lot for the comment, that really gave me a lot of information and thoughts! So far I'm leaning towards the C11 with a hyperstar, might leave the C14 idea alone for the time being. Since DSO is my primary goal, I think that would give me great results for the time being, and I might just get a big dobsonian later on in the future if I feel like it.

Thanks for the comment, but one thing you're missing about the SCT is the hyperstar in the equation, which would make the SCT f/2, I do not intent to try DSO imaging with f/11. As for my location, I'm actually not from the US, I'm from greece, which could make the purchase much more expensive and hard to someone from the US for example, and I'm also not quite sure what would be available for me. I currently own the ASI071MC and ASI224MC for guiding/planetary imaging. Just to point out for the mount, were you referring to the CGX, or CGX-L? As it has a fairly big difference between the 55 LBS for CGX and 75 LBS for the CGX-L. Thanks again, I do wish to hear about all the possibilites I have, as there's nothing better than learning from others mistakes

Yes I've heard that the C11 with hyperstar is a beast, I'm not worried about getting a C11 with hyperstar, but if I decide to get the CPC1100 with wedge, that is a concern to me, as I'm not really sure if that would be enough for long exposures, even though from what you state, that sounds like it could be good enough. Do you also use the C11 for observing? If so, what do you think about it?

Well as I stated before, whichever scope I'll use, it will probably be with a hyperstar, so DSO should be fairly great with either of them. As for going out for half an hour, that probably won't happen, I rarely do that right now, and even if I were to want that, I could still do it with the refractor. I've seen 1 option for second hand CPC1100 with wedge and hyperstar, that could save up a lot of money, but I don't know if that'll be good enough for DSO, do you know about it? I did consider getting one scope for visual and one for planetary, but eventually that might just be more expensive than 1 good scope for both, I still don't know about that, but what I'm generally thinking in mind, is having that big purchase so I won't have to spend more on anything else in the future. Which scopes do you have? That really comes down to what you chose and how far you went, even though you might be right Possibly, but C11/C14 seems like a really great option for both visual and imaging to me, I might be wrong though, that's why I'm asking for advices As for the price, I don't really think it will end up cheaper tbh, that really depends on what I end up choosing. Thanks for the comments guys

Hello, I've had 2 setups so far, which are the Explore Scientific ED102 and Skywatcher 150p, both on EQ5 mount. I really feel like I'm ready to take my gear up to the next level, and I really like both observing and imaging, the thing is I'm not really sure how far I'd like to go with this. Since the EQ5 is not a very sturdy mount for imaging, I'd really like to upgrade it, and I'd also like to upgrade my aperture for both observing and imaging, the most suitable scope for that to me seems to be the celestron SCT so far, I believe with an SCT scope I'll be able to use it for both observing and imaging, the question is really how far I'd like to go with that. Ideally, I'd say the C11 edge would do the best job for both worlds, it's a really nice scope, fairly big aperture, very sharp for imaging, and that will surely satisfy me. The issue I'm having with that is I might want to upgrade again in the future, and anything bigger than the C11 is a lot of money....BUT, possibly instead of investing around 4000-6000$ for the C11, it might just be worth spending some more(the C14 edge with CGX-L is sold for 8700$) and eventually getting the C14 edge, which will probably won't require me to upgrade my gear ever again. It is a thought that needs to be taken very seriously, both money-wise and size/weight-wise, it surely isn't an easy task, but spending 6000$ now, and in 2, 4, maybe even 6 years later spend another 8700$ feels like a waste to me. A few very important things, first of all, I'm extremely aware of the C11 and obviously the C14 weight and size, it's HUGE AND HEAVY, but I've seen friends with both the C11 and C14, I've also set it up myself, and I don't think it's something I won't be able to handle, and at times, I could still always use my refractor for a small trip if I wanted to. My imaging goal is mainly DSO, which is why I'm intrested in getting a hyperstar for whatever scope I'll purchase, obviously RASA is what comes to mind first, but since I'd also want to do planetary observing/imaging, I don't think the RASA setup will be very suitable for me, even though it's amazing for DSO. So after all of this, do you guys have any suggestions for me? One of the reasons I'm coming with this now, is that I'm currently in a place which I can pretty much allow myself to do it, I got a great job, I don't have much responsibilities or bills to pay at the moment, so I can save up very nicely without having to worry all that much about spending such amount of money, which I really can't tell if that will be the case in the future. Thanks for the help.

That's a really nice explanation, I'll give it a try

Not really unfortunately, I've already seen any video I could find about that, but with no use, the thing is its possible that my collimator is faulty, so idk really if its just me and its the collimator, or both...

Well the problem is no matter what I try its just not really working, the screws are not going to the direction they should.

So if you insert the laser in the focus tube and spin it, how vast the gap should be? Do you mind filming a really short video showing that when you're free?

Thanks, one important question, the laser doesn't need to be "10 feet away" to do it right? I'm not failing to do it because of the distance I'm trying I assume?..

Hello, I purchased a laser colliator but unfortunately I'm facing a problem, I knew that I need to collimate the laser before I purchsed it, and I got something just for that at home, so I thought it wouldn't be a problem, but for a reason I don't seem to be able to collimate the laser, at first the laser was a bit off, so I tried playing with the screws, but it just didn't really worked, no matter when I did the laser was just not going to the direction I needed it to. A bigger problem is that after about 30 minutes of trying to collimate the laser, the screws worn out and it was just unusable, so I just used regular screws instead, it should work in theory, after all its only laser with screws that push it to whatever direction you need, the weird this is, when 1 specific screw is not screwed at all, the laser circle(when you spin the laser to check if its collimated) is not so big, but after screwing the screw(is that how you supposed to write it? o: the gap is widening, eventually, no matter really what I try, I just can't seem to manage to collimate it. Maybe I'm doing something wrong possibly? Hopefully someone will be able to help me and give me some advices. Just one more thing, I know the long debate about laser vs cheshire, please spare replies such as "get a cheshire" or "you should've bought a cheshire" and so on, maybe its true, maybe I learned it the hard way, but its still not helping my situation, so thats just it, thanks a lot