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<blockquote data-quote="RandyDSok" data-source="post: 176757" data-attributes="member: 201">A 12&quot; SC scope is nice... until you have to haul it around a few times. In fact, I did my share of complaining about setting up my old 6&quot; SC and it's really not that bad ( I'm just bitchy about workin when I'm playing ... lol ). If I had the funds and time to do it again/some more... I'd go with an 8&quot; most likely and at the very most a 10&quot; scope. In any case, budget in a hernia operation, just to play it safe with the budget... lol.You also have to take into account the space you have to carry it to a field ( if traveling to darker skies ). If going a little more budget friendly and you picked a Newtonian type instead of a pricey Schmidt Cassegrain... you have to make sure you have room for whatever diameter you can afford to fit in the back of your bed, trunk or trailer along with the mount to set it up with.Oh one last thing... these days CMOS sensor imagers are the way to go. In fact, if going full on amature photog on it... Look up the process called &quot;lucky imaging&quot; and if done right, you can almost get large telescope results using a really small telescope. Basically, lucky imaging is taking hundreds if not thousands of images, then throwing out the ones with atmospheric distortions in them and stacking the remaining ones to achieve really great results. Reminds me of the meme, ain't nobody got time for that... but it does result in some great shots and a lot of satisfaction that you took them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RandyDSok, post: 176757, member: 201"] A 12" SC scope is nice... until you have to haul it around a few times. In fact, I did my share of complaining about setting up my old 6" SC and it's really not that bad ( I'm just bitchy about workin when I'm playing ... lol ). If I had the funds and time to do it again/some more... I'd go with an 8" most likely and at the very most a 10" scope. In any case, budget in a hernia operation, just to play it safe with the budget... lol. You also have to take into account the space you have to carry it to a field ( if traveling to darker skies ). If going a little more budget friendly and you picked a Newtonian type instead of a pricey Schmidt Cassegrain... you have to make sure you have room for whatever diameter you can afford to fit in the back of your bed, trunk or trailer along with the mount to set it up with. Oh one last thing... these days CMOS sensor imagers are the way to go. In fact, if going full on amature photog on it... Look up the process called "lucky imaging" and if done right, you can almost get large telescope results using a really small telescope. Basically, lucky imaging is taking hundreds if not thousands of images, then throwing out the ones with atmospheric distortions in them and stacking the remaining ones to achieve really great results. Reminds me of the meme, ain't nobody got time for that... but it does result in some great shots and a lot of satisfaction that you took them. [/QUOTE]

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