Little bit of background.
Managed to buy a new house (finally) which means I will be leaving my Bortle 8/9 roofterrace and trading it in for a garden in a Bortle 4/5 area.
I have managed to convince my wife to dedicate part of the garden to a permanent observatory. Now my dilemma starts with what Scope do I want to put in there.
I have some limitations, it needs to be a setup comfortably run on a CEM70, no budget for a new mount head, executive decision from my wife. Which is fair since I have around a 10k budget for the new scope and camera not including the observatory itself.
I want to go for a longer focal length scope to be able to do planetary nebulas and galaxies etc. Mono is a must as I do really love to do SHO type stuff.
Have put together the below selection and gave myself a little room for some odds and ends that will probably be needed but that I have not considered.
As we all love to theorize in helping spend other peoples money, I would be really interested to hear what other suggestions anyone might have, alternatives, and or obvious things that I need to add to the above.
Thanks in advance.
CS Sean
Managed to buy a new house (finally) which means I will be leaving my Bortle 8/9 roofterrace and trading it in for a garden in a Bortle 4/5 area.
I have managed to convince my wife to dedicate part of the garden to a permanent observatory. Now my dilemma starts with what Scope do I want to put in there.
I have some limitations, it needs to be a setup comfortably run on a CEM70, no budget for a new mount head, executive decision from my wife. Which is fair since I have around a 10k budget for the new scope and camera not including the observatory itself.
I want to go for a longer focal length scope to be able to do planetary nebulas and galaxies etc. Mono is a must as I do really love to do SHO type stuff.
Have put together the below selection and gave myself a little room for some odds and ends that will probably be needed but that I have not considered.
As we all love to theorize in helping spend other peoples money, I would be really interested to hear what other suggestions anyone might have, alternatives, and or obvious things that I need to add to the above.
Thanks in advance.
CS Sean
