Weight Capacity of Celestron Alt-Azimuth
Mounts
Following table lists the weight capacity of each of the Celestron computerized
alt-azimuth mounts in production as of early 2018 as reported by Celestron.
Celestron occasionally changes their mind on a mount's capacity or provides
additional mount capacities, to include the equatorial mounts, at their website.
Also, it is not uncommon to exceed these limits a bit which is fine as long as
you keep things nearly balanced fore to aft and understand stability will suffer
somewhat.
The most recent location of this information is:
https://www.celestron.com/blogs/knowledgebase/what-are-the-payload-capacities
| Mount |
Capacity in Pounds |
Capacity in Kilograms |
| LCM |
5 |
2.3 |
| SLT and original NexStar GT |
8 |
3.6 |
| 4SE/5SE |
10 |
4.5 |
| 6SE/8SE and original NexStar 5/8/5i/8i |
12 |
5.4 |
| SkyProdigy |
7 |
3.2 |
| Evolution* |
25 |
11.3 |
| Astro Fi |
8 |
3.6 |
* In my opinion the less substantial tripod shipped
with the Evolution 6/8 does not provide ample stability up to this
capacity; 18lb/8.2kg is more in line with the other figures here.
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