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Thanks guys for your replies, there's more to it than what one reads in the ads. But I cannot buy a C8, there are none in stock, so now its become necessary to change direction. I have to give weight a serious consideration. The Celstron tube is now only made in aluminium and weighs 10 kiloes One supplier quotes 17 kilos for the Meade LX90 8 inch and another qotes it at 12.5 kiloes either is a load to lift to chest height to assemble and the cost shoots up an extra 1200 dollars plus another 200 odd dollrs for a wedge, which adds more weight, the reason I chose the Celstron. Saxon advertises an 8 inch F12.5 Maksutov-Cassegrain optic tube for $1398 , the go to mount is extra. Is this type of scope any better or worse than a Schmidt -Cassegrain? The picture of the go to drive mount looks light on.
Who sells QE 6 mounts?
German Eq drive photographs always show the scope in what I'd term a vertical position and the balance shaft and weight facing downward. Assuming one sets the Go To drive to find an object close to the horizon. Would the scope and balace arm move close to the horizontal?
Do these Celestron Scopes come with rechargable internal batteries or can exturnal power be plugged in?
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