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Originally Posted by masraum
Why's it need to be small? With telescopes, aperture rules. Dobsonians are relatively portable and very simple to setup. If you went with a truss dob, it's even more portable, but requires a bit more setup.
A 4" refractor would also not be a bad choice.
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Because you can't read my thoughts.
Many years ago, my dad had a client/friend who wanted a telescope, but his wife would not let him... He bought one anyway and had my dad keep it. It was quite large - which was great, but also made it a pain to move, even 30 feet from the indoors to where we set it up outside.
I could not image lugging that thing up/down two sets of stairs, packing it into the car and setting up at some freezing location. Storage space is the other consideration.
One day...