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Thanks all
Thanks for all comments (I really appreciate everyones input). I have decided to go with an ST80 from camera warehouse ($185+$15 shipping) set up for day time viewing (which sounds like it's worth having in the bush). I will add a 90 degree diagonal, take my eps and live with a camera tripod (anyone have a small fave to recommend). Basically it's an alternative to big binoculars (except it's not bi), which I can point at the LMC and SMC, Orion Neb, Carinae Neb and show to the kids as well. We all have wonky different eyes/glasses (mainly mine) so I find binos fiddly to share, and also hard to "absorb" an image slowly.
If I was not planning on squeezing a bunch of gear, water, food, spare tyres, wife and two kids into a prado and going to bash around on corrugations for 4000km I would love to have an ED100 or bigger so I could play with imaging later.
The reviews of the ST80 summarised: "Yeh, it's limited.. but get one anyway - it's so cool and easy". I don't have great expectations of views, but it has to be better than the smudge of the Orion Neb I see with my spectacles.
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