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What telescope to buy?
Hey everyone,
I’m looking to buy my first telescope and am putting about $75 towards it per week so it should take me quite a few months to be able to afford one which works out as it gives me a decent amount of time to do research and make sure that I’m buying the right one.
So far I’ve found that dobsonian telescopes are good beginner telescopes so I’m thinking that I might get a 10 inch one. I want to be able to look at the moon, planets, nebulae, galaxies and to one day be able to do astrophotography once I get more comfortable and used to just viewing but I know that you need different types of telescopes for that so I was wondering if you guys could give me some recommendations of telescopes for each purpose.
My budget would be about $2000-$2500 for each telescope (mounts and eyepieces included). I obviously wouldn’t be looking to buy all the telescopes at once but I want to be able to compare my options. Thanks.
Btw I live in a suburban area with quite a bit of light pollution (probably like a 7-8 on the bottle scale if that helps) so I would probably have to take that into account.
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