The Meade 70mm Quadruplet APO along with the LX85 mount has given me several successful nights of imaging. I'm still new to astrophotography, but I've captured sharp, bright images with little to no star trailing at 90-120s exposures without autoguiding. Originally, I was using an M42 ring for my Canon 70D ******* onto the included M42 to M48 adapter, but I switched to only using an M48 adapter because I was having trouble getting into focus. It seems that focus is achieved close to the minimum focus distance and the extra distance created by the M42 to M48 adapter made focus difficult. I also strongly recommend getting a polar scope for the mount since astroimaging relies on precise polar alignment. I'm tempted to knock off a star for Meade not including a polar scope, but I'll give them a pass since they sell one for this mount and it wouldn't be necessary for everyone. This telescope is wide field, so if you're photographing most galaxies, they will be tiny. I bought this during galaxy season, so I am still waiting for the summer nebulae to be in the night sky so I can use it for what it excels at which is wide field deep sky objects. Also, this telescope doesn't come with any eyepieces or a diagonal because it's intended as an astrograph, but I haven't felt the need for an eyepiece since my camera essentially acts as one and my primary use of it is astroimaging. It's expensive, but the optics are high quality and the built in field flattener keeps my rig simple. The mount is straight-forward, stable, and hasn't given me any problems so far (as long as it's aligned properly). I think it's worth the money and anyone who buys this rig will be able to capture high quality images from the start.

The Meade 70mm Quadruplet APO along with the LX85 mount has given me several successful nights of imaging. I'm still new to astrophotography, but I've captured sharp, bright images with little to no star trailing at 90-120s exposures without autoguiding. Originally, I was using an M42 ring for my Canon 70D ******* onto the included M42 to M48 adapter, but I switched to only using an M48 adapter because I was having trouble getting into focus. It seems that focus is achieved close to the minimum focus distance and the extra distance created by the M42 to M48 adapter made focus difficult. I also strongly recommend getting a polar scope for the mount since astroimaging relies on precise polar alignment. I'm tempted to knock off a star for Meade not including a polar scope, but I'll give them a pass since they sell one for this mount and it wouldn't be necessary for everyone. This telescope is wide field, so if you're photographing most galaxies, they will be tiny. I bought this during galaxy season, so I am still waiting for the summer nebulae to be in the night sky so I can use it for what it excels at which is wide field deep sky objects. Also, this telescope doesn't come with any eyepieces or a diagonal because it's intended as an astrograph, but I haven't felt the need for an eyepiece since my camera essentially acts as one and my primary use of it is astroimaging. It's expensive, but the optics are high quality and the built in field flattener keeps my rig simple. The mount is straight-forward, stable, and hasn't given me any problems so far (as long as it's aligned properly). I think it's worth the money and anyone who buys this rig will be able to capture high quality images from the start.