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Originally Posted by renormalised
The CGEM is a good medium sized mount. 18kg capacity, so you wouldn't want to go any larger than the 9.25" Celestron. A 10" Meade would be a tad too large...the Meades tend to be a kilo or two heavier than their equivalent Celestron scopes. Not only that, once you've added onto the mount the weight of your camera, guider/guidescope, cables, counterweights etc, you will be getting close to the 18kg limit. But it would handle a 4" refractor rather comfortably. The only bug would be the price ($2400), if you're also going to buy a 4" refractor.
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CGEM 800 implies an 8" Celestron SCT OTA on a CGEM mount. The original post said he had sold his Meade. You are right, Meade OTA are heavier than Celestron. A CGEM 800 is $3000, leaving $1000 to get a DSLR or an entry level CCD (Atik maybe?).
