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Old 18-03-2013, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Jan Masu View Post
My LT8 weighs in at 14kg without the tripod!
And it suffers from condensation on a cold night.
Will purchase the ED127 once I punk the LT8 off.
That 14kg includes the complete mount , right?

You are still going to need to put the refractor tube on a german equatorial mount. It would make more sense to change over to a system were all the components are light enough for you such as a separate 8" SCT tube, rather than going down in aperture. An 8" SCT tube is a few KG lighter than the ED 127- so putting either on say an HEQ5Pro..you will still be 2 kg lighter and 250% more light with the 8"....

You'll still need dew zapping equipment with a refractor.
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