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Which scope
Thanks for your replies, Malcolm, Dunk, Joe and Colin. I was thinking 12 - 14Kg (OTA only) was around what I would call 'portable'. The Celestron CPC 925 is at what I call the upper limit of the portability range (I managed to get one for the college where I taught until retiring 3 weeks ago). It's optical quality that really matters to me; for example, I have seen reviews of the Chinese-made Skywatcher holding up extremely well against far more expensive refractors. (Cloudy Nights had an imaging shoot-out between the AstroPhysics 162 APO triplet refractor and the Sywatcher Esprit Ed 150; I couldn't pick any difference in the images)....Makes life tough, decision-wise...
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