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The Titan is cetainly a beautiful piece of work. It has a capacity of 100Lbs though and that would be stretched if not exceeded by most 16" Dobs - especially with a bit of kit attached. My 16" Meade Starfinder weighs in at 100Lbs (OTA only). I read a suggestion in another thread that this weight could be cut back by using a 2" hole saw (like the ones used for door knobs etc and cut a few hundred hols in the sonotube. The premise behind that isea was that you would lose little in terms of rigidity and cut up to 20% or so of the basic weight. The more you can cut back, the mnore you can start looking at mounts tha aren't quite as expensive as the $6 grand for the Titan.
Anbother possibility mnight be to look aty converting it to a truss scope first. Is there an y particular reason why a truss can't be made to work on an Equatorial mount? Wiser heads than mine will undolubtedly have an answer/opinion about that. I'd be really interested to head what they are.
Peter
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