*i would go against the dobsonian recommendation, great for visual, but hard to mount & long focal length for photography, there is ad ed80 triplet in he classifieds here, very good photography device, and decent for planet visual -satisfies his requirements, also light weight so mounting is not hard & expensive. he might want to get into EAA, take long exposures & use software to create a good image on an iPAd to look at -can also be sued for photos -the commercial units start at $3K, so best to get scopes & separate mount -then use other software
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