Hi all,
For many years I have looked at the night sky with bino's and enjoyed the views. I've learnt a few constellations and follow events like comet ISON with interest.
I'm looking to dip my toes in a little further and really don't want to spend more than $300. It seems after much research the Skywatcher Heritage 130 5" tabletop dob looks to fit the bill and has great reviews (for the price) at around $220 -
http://www.ozscopes.com.au/skywatche...telescope.html
After reading quite a few 'scopes for beginners' articles it seems the best scope is the one you have on you and the little 5" seems very portable. I also travel to country and remote Western Australia and the size of this unit would mean I could take it with me. Something to easily pull out for the kids to show some great moon views or other interesting views would also be great.
Another scope that caught my eye was the Skywatcher Black Diamond
130 x 650P EQ2. Only issue seems to be around the EQ2 mount which I'm reading as being quite a learning curve???
I'm also interested in some additional eyepieces and wondered what people thought of the Celestron Astromaster kit?
http://www.ozscopes.com.au/celestron...ilter-kit.html or would perhaps some well chosen Guan Sheng eye pieces from Andrews be a better idea, mind full of the $300 budget. Unfortunately the budget won't really improve as...oh yes I already mentioned the kids
Happy to take suggestions and more than open to ideas, I'm just learning and know very little on this very interesting topic.
