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Hi Billi,
I'm new to astro but not so new with general photography. Are you looking for a general photography tripod, or something to maybe mount a 'scope on. They are two different beasts.
With a photography tripod your first requirement should be to match your tripod to your height. Ideally your camera viewfinder should be at standing eye-level without the centre column raised.
What are you going to do with it? If you are only going to use it close to your house or car, an aluminium model will probably be fine. If you need to carry it over distance carbon fibre is much lighter, less vibration prone and more expensive.
If you are looking at it from an astronomy point of view it's a new ballgame. I have a Manfrotto carbon fibre tripod that is great for my photography uses but would be totally inadequate for astro photography.
I haven't looked lately but I don't remember seeing anything on the Manfrotto catalogue that was for astronomy use.
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