[mark3d]

Hi all. Well, we are narrowing down our purchase options. I plan to get a big dob eventually, but the portable scope is what we need now for practical reasons.

I was looking at a vixen porta mount + 130mm reflector .. but I have been put off a bit by the plastic focuser on the OTA that i couldn’t upgrade without drilling (otherwise it looks fantastic so that’s disappointing).

We would like something to put on one of these mounts:

* Vixen porta mount
* GSO/bintel skyview

but I just cant find a single Newtonian, sold as an OTA, that would be suitable for it! There are actually very few below 150mm that are not too long (I think 750mm is pushing the portability a bit far), and the few that are around are on EQ mounts.

Does anyone know of a sub-150mm Newtonian OTA in Australian shops?

At this stage we plan to get an 80mm refractor but if there is an equivalent Newtonian we would like to consider it for that bit extra aperture.

Cheers!
Mark