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Originally Posted by raymo
I agree with Glen, why go with a 5 or 6" when the HEQ5 will carry the SW 8" plus accessories easily?
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Well Stefan has stated he wants to keep the weight down and have an OTA for less than $500. Anyway, I found a 5 inch f5 newt to be a perfect match for the HEQ5. The setup I used, with OTA, 2 x losmandy dovetail bars, guide lens & cam and cooled DSLR (
all shown here) was about 10kg. Great FOV, a well matched image scale (ie focal length to pixel size) and reliable tracking.
For reference, the 150mm without finder or rings is 6 kg (see
here) while the 130mm without finder or rings is 3.7kg (see
here)