[RobertP]

My friend has an 8" reflector telescope but he damaged the secondary mirror looking at sunspots during the summer. I bought a T2 adaptor and got some dodgy pictures of Saturn through it - which is when we found the mirror problem.

I was reading something the other day about a camera with a 200mm lens being piggy backed on an astro mount to cancel movement.

There were some pictures of nebulas (nebulae ?? whatever) OK star clusters - and they were excellent - apparently all with a std type lens. Multiple images were combined in some program to get the detail level.

Will have to find it again and read some more to try and understand it all. Don't know if a used mount off ebay would be up to it. My mates telescope would be a lot easier to use on a powered mount too!