Skywatcher Startravel 80 OTA

[Mik3]

Are these any good? I'm thinking about getting one for use as a guide scope and deep sky imaging, could I some how mount it on my Skywatcher sys 127?

http://www.firstlightoptics.com/proddetail.php?prod=st80ota

[Whippy]

The ST80's are used by loads of people as guidescopes. Unfortunately though, for actual imaging the ST80 being an achromat suffers from Chromatic Abberation. If you want a small scope that can do double duty, I'd go for an William Optics ZentihStar 66. I use one for imaging and guiding and it's superb .

Tony..

[Mik3]

Thanks pal

[Merlin66]

Bang per buck the ST80 a neat small scope.

I upgraded the focuser to a 2" crayford and use it with my QHY5 for guiding.

I agree that it's "optically" challenged when compared with my ED80 etc but certainly nice to have!