Best "Pack & Go" setup?

Any thoughts on good to great Pack & Go setups that can be checked at the airport or carried on?

I need something I can travel with so I'm guessing it has to go in a JMI case or something simalar. I'm hoping to learn from your experience rather than learn the hard and $$ way. Thanks!

Keith Armitage said:

Any thoughts on good to great Pack & Go setups that can be checked at the airport or carried on?

I need something I can travel with so I'm guessing it has to go in a JMI case or something simalar. I'm hoping to learn from your experience rather than learn the hard and $$ way. Thanks!

http://www.sciencecenter.net/hutech/borg/solution/systems/swii.htm

hope this helps, 8)

Jim

Hi Keith,

It is not clear what you plan to view with the scope so I will qualify my answer a bit. I often carried a Questar on trips but found it too small to be satisfying on DSOs. A few months ago I ran into a second hand 8" Uti and have to tell you it is an amazing package- excellent optics and very sophisticated materials. If you can find one, the F4.5 Uti provides 8" of aperture in a hard case that is said to be small enough to carry on the plane and store in an overhead bin and weighs roughly 22 pounds. While they are not currently in production, they are occasionally available used. They are a bit expensive but I would be willing to bet if you set an 8" Uti up next to a Questar or an 80mm achro or APO and looked at M13 the choice would be clear.

http://www.infinityscopes.com/Uti8Page.htm