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The picture below shows John’s ‘portable’ telescope, a 10-in. (250 mm) Meade LX200, shown with a piggybacked CCD camera. The laptop PC can operate the Starlight Xpress MX5-C CCD camera and – simultaneously – automatically track celestial objects to a very high degree of accuracy. Unless you are a weight-lifter, this is about the largest telescope that can sensibly be regarded as remotely portable for one person.
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Moore, P., Watson, J. (2012). The Next Steps. In: Astronomy with a Budget Telescope. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2161-0_9
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