Celestron 8se mount match up question

[icebergahed]

I want to get an 8inch SCT but i afford the £1500 to get one. ive seen the celestron 8se mount new in the shops for £550. Ive also seen used OTA's on astrobuysell for around £250. Has anyone tried this. any tips would be great.

[astrokoma]

i bought an excellent mount from England (250GBP) and an excellent orange C-8 xlt from US for 500$.

Many users are disapoint with the mount, because they realise that they cant go on serius astrophotography, so they keep the OTA, and trying to sell the mount.

I use very rare my Nexstar 8se at my hollidays, but i am thinking of switch to a EQ-6 (equiped with a refractor) for astrophotophy projects.

If you were closer, we could make a deal....

Anyway, i think that it is easy to find a cheap mount, but you have to try hard for a resonable priced C8 (very popular OTA).

[rowan46]

If you can get a c8 for £250 snap it up unless you want to do deep space imaging and yes if its this mount http://www.firstlightoptics.com/celestron-mounts/celestron-nexstar-se-mount-tripod.html it will fit. be careful not to get the mount for the 4/5se by mistake as it is slightly smaller

[John]

The Celestron Nexstar 8 SE's sell for between £600 and £700 (scope and mount) on the used market. Keep an eye on the UK Astro Buy & Sell website:

http://www.astrobuysell.com/uk/

They are good for visual observing, OK for some casual planetary and lunar web cam imaging but not really suitable for deep sky imaging.

[astrokoma]

+1 for John...

And dont forget the most importand advantage of this scope....it is the most easy to carry 8" go-to SC...

[John]

+1 for John...

And dont forget the most importand advantage of this scope....it is the most easy to carry 8" go-to SC...

It's one of the most portable 8" scopes full stop I reckon

[astrokoma]

I used to store my first Nexstar 8i in a dedicated Baader aluminum hard case, and i transfered this 8" scope/mount, nice and easy....

Unfortunally, these cases are not in the market now....

Another think that i have to say, is that i switched the ota with a small refractor , and at once i had wide fields to observe...

This switching option really works with small refractors (in alt/az mode), if the refractor is well installed (avoid contact the diagonal with the "battery cover" area, when scope is pointing

at nenit).

I assume that a wedge installed mount, could accomodate larger intruments... in the 3-4 Kgr weight area...