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Very nice photo of the moon and excellent gear/setup Will. I've always admired the Takahashi scopes and mounts on the few times when I have seen them in person. We don't see very many Intes Micro Mak-Cass scopes around either.Here is the behind the scenes shot. The mount is a Takahashi EM-1S GEM. It uses a counter weight to balance the load. This is an old mount and only has one motor to drive the scope. But Takahashi make really solid and well made mounts. The larger scope at the bottom has the Olympus EP-1 mounted on it. The is a 5" f/10 Maksutov Cassegrain telescope--it uses lenses and mirrors and is very similar to mirror lenses for camera, except the size makes it much more efficient. This is a Russian scope made by Intes Marco. The smaller scope about it is a cheap Chinese 80mm f/5 refractor. That scope is used to guide longer exposures and to point the larger scope. While you still need a motor to drive lunar photography, you don't need to guide it. Guiding is for long exposures of deep sky objects.