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I am a big dob fan, and I come from a position of having used newtonians mounted on EQ mounts as my first scope and they are not even close to comparable for beginners scopes.
In my opinion you would have to have a very serious storage issue for that to be a factor swaying you towards an EQ mounted scope.
My 8" dob took up no more room than my old EQ2 mounted 130mm scope. And when you consider that within a few weeks of having my 8" I had racked up over 100 objects but had managed only a couple of dozen in 18 months with the EQ, no way that they are comparable.
Go to a star party and have a look at what the visual observers are using, majority dobs, a few SCT's on fork mounts, almost no eq mounted newtonians. There is a simple reason, for us eyeball types, dobs actually work!!
Cheers
Malcolm
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