Need help mounting Celestron 80ED-R

Need to mount a Celestron 80ED-R to a Meade 10" SCT. I'm still looking for a mount/tripod for it all if anyone knows where I can get at least a medium and preferably a heavy mount/tripod. I also want to be able to mount the 80ED in a DS2000 on the way. I have the original clam shell mount on the ED but I know so little astronomy I don't know what kind of dovetail that is and how to adapt it to the SCT and the DS2000. I have some other tripods as well. One is a Meade and the other a Celestron. They came with the 114s. The Meade is a small goto.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[QUOTE]Michael Teuton said:

Need to mount a Celestron 80ED-R to a Meade 10" SCT. I'm still looking for a mount/tripod for it all if anyone knows where I can get at least a medium and preferably a heavy mount/tripod. [QUOTE]

How much do you want to spend? You can start with the Orion Atlas on the low end and go up. The Atlas would be the minimum mount for this combo IMHO.

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as an update I got a Meade LXD650. pretty heavy mount but I'm glad I got it. It really isn't overkill either; not for the 10" SCT anyway. The 80ED is rock solid not much movement at all even with my manual focusing. The SCT does move a tiny bit. I'd like to get a focuser for my Moonlite. Anyone got an idea for that?