It's the opposite of a "Light Bucket"! ;o) As if I didn't have too many projects and not enough time to build them all, I've got one more. This one will only take a couple of hours, though, and tonight I ordered the last component required for the OTA. For some time I've wanted to build a very-long-focus 50mm refractor- something with a focal ratio exceeding f/20, so I can obtain reasonable magnifications without having to resort to a barlow. I wanted a telescope somewhat like Messier might have used, with a concession to modern optics but not monster aperture. I have a 50mm f/9, but it's somewhere between a finderscope and spotter. I want a much longer focal length. Finding such small diameter, long-focal-length achromats is difficult. They are not off-the-shelf items unless one wants to pay hundreds of dollars (I don't). In the last few years I've managed to acquire three, of varying focal lengths, that will suit the project. I want to essentially take the "Small Scope Sampler" tour and see just what is and what isn't visible through such a telescope, pushed to it's limits. It will probably take at least a year to log a representative chunk of the sky as seen from our latitude. What I'd like from the group is suggestions for observations, and ideas for a portable mount. I'll definitely be using it with one or two of my small, driven equatorials, especially for planetary observations, but a lightweight, alt-az mount would be usefull too. If nothing strikes my fancy in the alt-az departmet then I'll use it on my "Weightless" mount (see S&T, Oct. 2000, pg. 138) if the long tube doesn't foul the tripod legs (a possibility if I go with the f/40 objective). Stay tuned.