Thought that Celestron was a bit too cheap, is it me or are the celestrons the toys I'm trying to avoid?
How about
this one, with a set of eye pieces will fall into my price range.
Due to my past bad experience I want the mount to be as good quality, if not better that the telescope. I am happy to settle for a manual eq mount as long as its good, I can then upgrade to a motor or computerised mount when I buy what ever it is I need to start astrophotography later on.