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+1 to everything Stu said. you also need to understand what you want to do with the telescope, planets, Deep sky objects, imaging, casual star gazing ... each will have different requirements. regardless, i dont think i would choose either of the options you have put forward. Newtonians on an Eq mount are good general purpose scopes, however, i dont believe these are astrographs so you may have trouble hooking up a camera and the EQ mount is not driven so you cant track the sky with any real accuracy. in short, you are getting all the pain of a astrophotography rig without being able to do astrophotography. a much better, cheaper and easier to use option would be a dobsonian, the largest you can comfortably handle.
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