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Hi Morton,
I've had a little 80mm Mak (f11) since the late 1980s which I originally bought for eclipse travel. It's not exactly a high quality piece of kit (it was all I could afford at the time) but is extremely light and easy to handle and I've always used it on a light-weight camera tripod without any issues. I will still take it with me to the US next year for the eclipse as a backup scope. The views through it on anything apart from lunar/solar/bright planets are pretty dim however so my advice would be to go for around 100/102mm of aperture if you can.
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