Dunno about your age raymo, but I have trouble getting down to the polar scope
I'm convinced you need to be a contortionist to be able to use it
Which raises another interesting point...height. It largely depends on what scope you intend to be mounting on it, but even with something short like a SCT I found the first time I used it I was "unprepared" for the positions the eyepiece would end up in. Everything I'd read said the lower the better for stability, but I just found it impossible to get down to some of the positions comfortably.