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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Wow Rolf, you are doing some wonderful stuff mate and congratulations all round 
Mike |
Thank you Mike
I'm really looking forward to finishing this new scope! I'm hoping for some increased resolution, but most importantly I'll look forward to the faster imaging times. Allthough that'll of course promptly be utilised to obtain
deeper images, not shorter
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Originally Posted by coldlegs
Excellent work Rolf. How much did the 10" weigh in the end?
Cheers
Stephen
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Thank you Stephen. The weight data of my current 10" is as follows:
OTA without mirror and finderscope (but with finderscope brackets): 7.85 kg
OTA incl. mirror: 11.85 kg
OTA incl. mirror and finder scope: 13.15 kg
The finder is an Antares 80mm and is ridiculously heavy at 1.3 kg alone. I'm thinking of switching to a Telrad for the 12.5". I don't need the finderscope except while I do the initial star hopping to my target (I don't have goto).and so there is no reason the mount should carry it during imaging... I could also make some sort of quick release for it, provided that it'll still be aligned when I put it back on.