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Originally Posted by axx
How about this then,
Skywatcher Celestron 6" SCT OTA with Bresser EXOS2 (EQ5 equiv.) heavy duty equatorial mount/tripod from andrews, comes in at $1200, or the celestron nexstar es6 $1400.
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No no no no no no no!
You do not recommend an equatorial mounted telescope to a beginner. Because I started with one and it drove me f****** insane!
A beginner has to start out with something simple. And the OP wants compact. That to me sounds like a 80-100mm refractor on a simple alt-azimuth tripod mount. "Point and squirt" simplicity.
Someone with their first scope is trying to learn their way around the sky. But, with an eq scope as well they need to try align the mount with the SCP. Which has no guide star. SO they have to eyeball it with a magnetic compass. Then the alignment still isn't good enough. So then they have to learn to drift align it to get their expensive setup to work as intended. By this point they still haven't seen Jupiter.
And then they just go. Bugger it and go back inside and do this...
