Hi,
For me, after condersing portability and pricing, a 8" SCT or a 8" F4 Newtonian might be my final scope.
If I've the money to do what the Arief picture show, it'll be a big RC telescope... I can always put an off-axis mask for unobstructed colour free planetary view.... dream on... dream on...
Have a nice day.
Yang Weixing "The universe is composed mainly of hydrogen and ignorance."
I was a reflector man (I had 3 in a row) until I came to Singapore. Then I was converted to refractors, having been exposed to all those lovely Taks, William Yangs, Pentaxes etc. For imaging a small, short FL refractor is hard to beat. Especially when you have to set up and take down quickly in S'pore's variable weather.
There is a simple rule that is always ignored. For refractor, the difference of refractive index between objective glass and the air is just 0.5~0.70, which means that slight figuring error on objective lens doesn't change much the overall optical performance. For reflector, if the relationship between incident light ray and reflected light ray is expressed the same way as above mentioned, the difference of refractive index will be much higher, as a result, reflectors are more sensitive to figuring error. In my opinon, catadioptric is the most compromised design regardless of portability.
I don't devaluate reflectors, a well figured Tak reflector justifies all its aperture advantages it carries. At this moment I keep both types with a bit more preference to refractors.
10" Telekit with Zambuto optics~TMB 152/1200 (construction)~Takashi Mewlon 210~TMB 80/600
Think because reflectors need to collimate often, newbs like me don't like it. I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky! (esp. since i in camp most of the time, my poor "wife" is unused..)
But if i had a choice with lotsa money, one each rocks. cats for portability, buy a bungalow and setup a big refractor there, box up a good reflector in a car to go dark places when nights are good ;))
"The universe is composed mainly of hydrogen and ignorance." 
