ED80 for double stars?

[neil groves]

I'm on the verge of purchasing a scope for astrophotography, i have decided on an ED80 and have read that f5-f6 is a good focal ratio for wide field star clusters, nebulae etc, however i would like to observe/image double stars as i understand there are some beautiful sights to be had, such as Altair with it's different colours, would the same scope do everything?

Neil.

[wxsatuser]

Double stars no problem with decent EP, but for imaging you may need to go eyepiece projection route.

Here is Polaris with EP projection, SW 80ED Pro.......Canon 600D mounted on a Baader Hyperion zoom set at 8mm.

Exposure was around 8secs@ISO800.....imaged cropped out of larger one.