greealilee Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Can anyone advise if I am doing the right thing. I have been using my celestron 8 SE for the past 3 years for mainly visual use and have since slowly moved in to astro photography. I upgraded the mount to the AVX, bought the polemaster for better alignment and then bought the Starlight Xpress Ultra C camera with the mind set to start to image with this camera and then later down the line upgrade the camera and then be left with this and a good guide camera. So slowly I feel that I have progressed in the right direction and have been on a 3 year learning curve that never seems to ends and only gets steeper, which is what keeps me striving to learn more and upgrade my kit. So my 8 SE is looking to be upgraded but for what?. I am toying with the idea of a Skywatcher Esprit 80 ED APO PRO Triplet Refactor, it fits my budget and I am looking for something a little smaller and more manageable as in size. But with so many on the market could I squeeze out a little more on size but go with a lesser quality, I'm not sure so advise would be great and am I doing the right thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbie alert Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 As with you i started with a 8sct, and then progressed more onto dso's and found the sct too narrow in fov for the bigger targets so got myself a 80ed..its opened up a whole new avenue to imaging but I still love to image the smaller targets with my sct..So now I'm looking to get better at imaging a long focal length scope ,so now the journey continues... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greealilee Posted November 5, 2017 Author Share Posted November 5, 2017 So how do you find 80ed, I feel a little guilty going down to such a size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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