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Old 22-12-2008, 05:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Tandum View Post
I just wheeled the whole show onto the corner of a set of bath scales and it showed 30Kgs including the base yet the trolley wheels where still on the ground. I'd guess the tube itself would be 25Kgs, almost 400mm in diameter and about 1.8meters tall.
Cheers tandum - that really puts things into perspective. I should mention that my eyesight is not brilliant - very short-sighted with poor night-vision compounded by a fuzziness not unlike TV static across my field of vision (had this since childhood). This means, practically speaking, that when a dark sky impresses some people to their naked eye, I am not quite as impressed without, at least, binoculars.

That's the only reason I am still going to sleep on this 10"/12" question. I shall be decided in the next week or so.

Also interested in other people's opinion on how my vision affects my choice of aperture, and what people think I should get accessory-wise to begin with.

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