clock-drive eq mount with 30 pound payload?

I'm considering buying an Explore Scientific "David Levy Comet Hunter" 152 mm Maksutov-Newtonian reflector to replace my 150 mm Orion Newtonian reflector. But the ES Mak-Newtonian weighs 25 pounds, probably 30 pounds with eyepieces etc., and that would be too heavy for my Orion EQ-3 mount.

I would like to find a non-computerized equatorial mount with a clock drive that could carry a 30 pound load. I enjoy finding objects in the sky the old fashioned way, and I don't want to lug around the extra weight of a 12 volt battery for a go-to drive. The non-go-to equatorial mounts seem to max out at a 20-pound payload.

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

The early EQ6 was not goto. If you find one of those it will carry 30 pounds. That mount was rated by the manufacturer at 25kgs.

dan

Hi Anthony,

The Comet Hunter OTA weight is listed at 15.4 pounds. I don't think my old tank-like Russian MN61 Mak-Newt weighed as much as 25 pounds but it might have been close!.

- Tom

Look at Discmount DM6
Not cheap but very nice
and you can add a skycommander