Thread: Hi everyone!

Hi! My name is Samantha Rogers. I am one of the authors of a blog called "Injury in the City." We created the blog in order to inform people everything they need to know about accidents and other personal injury issues. I'm happy because I will be able to share my ideas regarding different topics through this forum site.

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I am jack,just today I joined this forum. I'm a young guy, recently married who enjoys reading, eating, sports, working out, meeting new people and traveling. I like taking on challenges and enjoy learning interesting facts about people and places. I want to share my experience and pleasure with other.

hello friends,
I just bought a vixen ED81S for a steal, along with it a new CG-5 (cant wait to "hypertune"?) I have a DSLR and a couple nice Vixen LV-W EP Orion Premium zoom, it took about two weeks to get the dough up to get where I am at.
after using even small refractor I am much more impressed the my celestron 6SE, half the scope, twice as pretty views, I also had never "seen" with my own eyes nebula or galaxies until now, and I am hooked.
I almsot ordered an orion 200mm f3.9 reflector last night, then started thinkin' (dangerous I know), I need an autoguider anyway, for future and now, either way, $5-%600 for OTA or autoguider, so I feel this will be a better way to "grow" into this hobbie that I am just starting to hemmorage monies into.
Baader has an OAG off axis guider that connects right to my camera, then a RCC-1 coma corrector thingy, total is $670, the other thing, I like the orion awesome package with starshooter, but an 80mm guidescope with an 81mm main (for now) I dunno?
What are the big reasons to go Off Axis? what are the cons? does the software "fix" it if you have a "correct" image finder?
do you think that celestron nexguide, with an off axis would work? does anyone use that setup?
I have a MacPro, dual boot so I have windows for astro software, which I only have winstars 2.0 lol, so I have a laptop.
guys, I have read spec and articles, but I really need real world info from the pro's and I consider you guys just that, this is for personal imaging, I cant afford adaptive optics, I guess, if I put everything off, I can peice meal $1000 over a couple weeks for a nice setup.

thanks

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