Hello to all
After lurking on the forums for a while I thought it was about time I said hello the everyone.
To preempt Mike I found out about Iceinspace from your posts on Gamearena and my wife holds you personally responsible for getting me started on yet another hobby (although I've always said I would get a telescope "one day") :p
I finally took the plunge and bought a little 4.5" eq reflector just after christmas.
After struggling with the eq mount to get it set up my first sight though the telescope was saturn
then M42, pleiades, jewel box, Jupiter and it's moons
again and a globular cluster.
Anyway to cut a long story short after going to the BAS open night at Mount Coot-tha on Saturday night and looking though a couple of 10" dobs I've managed to convince the mrs that I need an upgrade.
The latest S & S has a GSO 8" dob for $399 and a GSO 10" dob for $799. What I need to know is it worth the extra for $$$ for the 10" or should I just go for the 8" remembering that I'm a bit of a newbie
Thanks in advance