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My experience has been a bit different to the general amateur astronomer. I’ve found that setting up a small 4” refractor gets a lot of wows. On other nights setting up a 12” or 16” Newtonian I’d get just as many wows BUT there would be the occasional person that would be expecting to see a bit more through a larger aperture telescope.
Setting up a 4” and 16” made this divide even more extreme. In the city there is certainly a difference between the 4” and 16” BUT it’s not as much in expectation of what some viewers imagine.
I would say there is more of a wow factor with a bigger telescope on the outset but when it comes to actually viewing things, being proficient with the telescope is more important as is the targets you choose to view than the telescope size.
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