I make do with a solid small Manfrotto camera tripod to which I've attached a Celestron Delux Slow-Motion control. The trick being to set the tripod's panning arm away from one's body and getting used to using it that way.
Unfortunately, that control is no longer available and the equivalent Orion unit is a lot shakier (though it still works, one just has to be more careful with it). However, apart from the two knobs that give the up and down, left and right movement, the Orion unit also has a useless tilting head function which often comes loose with a refractor attached. So I glued it together to disable that function.
I can't think of anything smaller or lighter.
Regards,
Renato
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