VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|theironduck|DATE|1362586969|CONTENT|Thanks for the info, and the fox picture.  I fear you may be right when you say you can spend as much as you like on telescopes.  I started looking at something for £300 which sounded good but then all the add-ons - GoTo drives, equatorial mounts etc - made the price sky-rocket to £1200.  Eeek!  Meade seem to do a nice cheapish &quot;backpack&quot; model which might sate my cravings without breaking the bank (or my marriage) but an astronomy-loving colleague reckons it would be too flimsy to mount a camera on.

Camera-wise, I have a sizable investment in Nikon glass so won&#039;t be changing although some of the purpose-built cooled CCD sensors look tempting.  I can lock the mirror permanently up on my Nikon D3100 which should get around the mirror-bounce problem - are you sure you don&#039;t have that option buried somewhere in a menu on yours?|IP-ADDRESS|62.173.102.55|MODERATIONFLAG|