Looking to upgrade.

[Milesy303]

At the moment I have the following setup. 

WO GT81, EQ6-R, Nikon D5500

and I’m in the process of getting set up with stellarmate so I can utilise dithering and guiding mainly more than capturing but that helps.  

I’d love a WO FLT132 but that’s way out my budget sadly at the moment. 

I’m basically imaging what I can with the scope I have, including smaller targets that I’ve cropped like Bodes, Whirlpool etc. 

I have about £1000ish to spend and my thoughts were to a new camera. 

My biggest pain points here in Scotland for the last two seasons has been 

1. Taking darks, it seriously hampers my very little imaging time I get. So something like a cooled camera like the 1600 or 183 hyper cam seemed appealing  

2. I miss so much imaging time during the moon and it’ll only be a few months until twilight creeps back again for the summer. I’ve only managed to image three times since October...... so going mono on the above cameras seems like a pretty good idea. 

Someone else also suggested the 183c with a triband filter  

All I want is to give me a bit of a boost in productivity with so little imaging time  

greatly appreciated of any responses  

many thanks 

chris