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There are plenty of people here who get together for viewing smenkhare, and my suggestion is before you spend your hard earned on that 76, which really will be more of a pain than you can possibly believe, get out and have a look through a few scope. That scope just might be Ok for looking at the moon and maybe Jupiter and Saturn, but the mount will drive you to distraction. A common name for that sort of mount (and the similar eq mount) is a "wobbletronic". They are not worth the money. All they do is discourage the majority of people away from astronomy. I'm not saying that there aren't people who enjoy using them, but the most find their way into back closets and never get used after the first couple of times. We have the same mount with a refractor on it at the observatory where I run classes and we using to demonstrate to people what not to buy. Invariably if inexperienced people are asked what sort of telescope they are thinkin of getting they grab it first (or the similar eq). Wy? because that is the sort of telescope they have seen on TV or in magazines (D.ick Smith Tandy, photo shops etc).
Mickoking is right on the money. Ok the Dob mightn't "look" like a real telescope, but believe me it is far more a real scope than the 76, and you will get far more pleasure out of using it. Plus a 6" Dob will show you far far far more deep sky stuff than that 76 ever could.
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