The Alt/Azimuth mounts are the easiest to use in my opinion, and simple compss and altitude devicrs are available to assist locating objects. Dobonsian scopes are good starter scopes and pretty intuitive to use but as they get larger they get heavy and require more space to store etc. Dobsonians are also the least costly per inch of aperture. Suggest you go to Bintel and talk to them and look at scopes. Personally I would stay away from goto or motor driven scopes initially as they are expensive compared to the same manual scope and you will not learn the sky as quickly IMHO.
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