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Hi all. I'm slowly putting together an imaging setup and have been looking at guide scopes. It'll will be paired with a 150PDS and either the HEQ5 Pro or AZ EQ5, as yet undecided. I'm looking at the Altair 60mm guidescope or the SW Evoguide 50ED. I'll be mounting it on a dovetail attached to the tube rings. Are they going to be fairly similar in performance?

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Depends what you want guide scope to do.

If it's solely for guiding - then get cheapest, easy to work with option (decent way to focus and good mounting support).

You don't need larger aperture and you don't need ED optics for guiding.

I'm very happy with this one:

https://www.firstlightoptics.com/guide-scopes/astro-essentials-32mm-f4-mini-guide-scope.html

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