So what should I be looking for? I have a budget of $500.00 and would like to get the best for my money, being a complete novice with so many types and brands of telescope I am now nothing more than a very confused novice.
What I want to do is view the planets, moon, nebula's and deep space objects and eventually get into astrophotography.
So where do I start, whats a good buy and whats not? I have been looking on ebay and have worked out there is a 1,000 of the cheapest ones (I do not want to go there) but there seems to be some reasonable ones as well.
Saxon, Seben are a couple that caught my eye but not knowing anything have held off buying. Meade seem to be quite good as well but passed out when I saw the price, I figured that will be in a couple of years time.
So any advice/comments will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.