Dilemma - Help Me Spend Some Money

[dazza1639]

I have a Nexstar8GPS and have just ordered an Orbit Wedge with the astrotrac polar scope. With the remainder of my budget I was going to get an autoguiding system consisting of an ST80 piggybacked on the NS8GPS and a QHY5 as the guide camera or an Orion Optics US Refractor & Starshoot Guider combo. However, as both of these appear to require Windows and it dosen't look like there will be any Mac drivers / PHD support on the Mac it looks like this idea is a none starter (parallels / bootcamp are not really an option for capture & guiding at the same time).

So on to Plan B.

Should I get a flash upgradeable Handset and update cables for the NS8GPS and an illuminated reticule eyepiece?

OR

A starlight Instruments Feather Touch Microfocuser (Starlight Instruments Feathertouch Microfocuser Celestron CPC800 & NexStar 6SE 8SE) and an illuminated reticule eyepiece?

Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated as I would like them all but my budget won't allow that so I need to work out which will be of most use to me.

Regards

Darren

[dazza1639]

Harrison telescopes have emailed me with the correct microfocuser for the older celestron models such as NS8GPS the link is here (Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Microfocuser Celestron 8" SCT)

Anyone got any thoughts?

Regards

Darren