Rob: Yeah, I have an ED80, and it is too heavy to go on the secondary cage. Peter Read has something similar to the size on an ED80 mounted to his mirror box. Not my cup of tea because I want to use it while up the ladder to find things!
Dennis: Thanks for the info about your experiences with the Orion option. I had thought it looked a tad cheap and nasty. I will have a Telrad for direct pointing. The finderscope is more to help me work through galaxy clusters and hopping through familar fields to find objects of interest rather than only using the Argo Navis. I don't know much about the Antares brand. I get the feeling it would be of similar quality to the Orion, but I have no info to go by at this stage.
Paul: the Stellarvue finders looks just the thing! Did you get yours through Optcorp? What did you pay in freight from the US?
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