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Thanks for that. Yes I used to live in central Australia so I've been spoiled when younger.
While we get away with the telescope when we can, the reality is I take it out, it's super-quick to setup and even if I only spend an hour or so looking at something specific I wanted to see, that's an hour well spent. I've been quite surprised at how well I'm able to see, admittedly we're in a valley and while that limits the horizon significantly to views away from the city, I think it has upsides.
I hope to slowly build up quality eyepieces and upgrade my telescope as experience and finances allow. I like to see the progression in what I do. I think I will start another thread on eyepieces and keep it seperate to this one, to allow others to find it should they be interested in the same path in future. So far I've only bought one Tele Vue 2x Barlow, which sadly I never use. I find the two standard eyepieces (Celestron 13 and 40 mm Plossl) are unremarkably a good match for the OTA and the 13 mm + 2x is too much for that telescope.
My understanding is an C8 OTA is a good compromise for telescopes of this type; small enough to be able to take it out/around easily, but big enough to gather light. It would be very interesting to compare them side by side.
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