How to adapt small Dobsonian to use with a tripod? I am the owner of a small 4", f/6.3 tabletop Dobsonian telescope with a 102mm aperture and 640mm focal length. 

It is based on a Dobsonian mount but I would like to use a tripod instead because of the complications of having to cary a table with me everywhere I would like to use the telescope. The alternative is to but the telescope on the ground which makes viewing uncomfortable and is not very stable.

A good tripod could be foldable or collapsible and make my rig much more portable and bring the eyepiece up to a more convenient viewing height, without having to bring along a "telescope table". 

Is this possible? If so, are there any specific tripods I should use or other pointers on how best to proceed?



This is not me or my telescope or mount, but it gives an idea of viewing with a similarly-sized tabletop telescope. I'd like to mount the telescope on a tripod instead. 

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First, a tripod won't help you point to a particular location in the sky.  For that you would need a correctly-aligned equatorial mount with setting circles, or a mount with digital encoders (you can get these for dobsonians) that when correctly configured can convert the telescopes position to a position on the celestial sphere.

It is possible to convert a dobsonian to a different kind of mounting.  If your telescope doesn't already have a tripod bracket, you would probably need to buy tube rings such as these, and put one on either side of the circles on the sides of the tube that sit in the rocker box, so that the center of gravity of the scope was between the rings.  Then you'd probably need a plate connecting the rings and providing a mount point between them that you could attach to a tripod or a more complex mount (like an equatorial).

My suspicion is that rather than trying to adapt the dobsonian to a different mount, you'd be better served either by buying after-market digital encoders for your dobsonian, or just getting a whole new telescope with the kind of mounting you want.