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Originally Posted by cadman342001
Option 4
A 200mm 8" f4 CF newt from Andrews for $599. I've asked what the weight of this is, hopefully the CF will reduce the weight enough to make it viable on the HEQ5 plus the added bonus of extra stiffness of the CF.
Price = $599 + MPCC $339 = $938
Andy
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FYI this is the response I got from Luke at Andrews.com
"The weight of the OTA is approximately 8kg (this was using my simple set of scales at home which may not be totally accurate, but it would be close to this weight).
However, you should be aware that we only have one of these OTAs in stock and it seems as though either the tube length is wrong or the mirror cell is incorrectly located.
We discovered this when we sold the second last piece from our stock to a customer who reported that he was unable to reach focus with his camera.
We offered this customer a partial refund, which he accepted and kept the OTA.
Unfortunately, the last piece of this model we have in stock has the same problem, so you would not be able to focus a camera with this telescope at prime focus (our website will be updated to reflect this issue soon)."