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Originally Posted by Finski
What sort of scope would be a significant and worthwhile step up from my 10x50 binoculars? Any suggestions would be great!
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At minimum in a refractor, an 80mm, at f/6 and above; although, a 70mm achromat at f/13 would challenge the 80mm, and for several reasons, like this Meade of my own...
https://i.imgur.com/JLcRCBX.jpg
In a Newtonian, a 114mm f/8...
https://i.imgur.com/QqTFWfw.jpg
...albeit with a sphere, yet at f/8.
Incidentally, those are the old designs, from the 1600s, and from where most of the telescopes you see online originated, including the two I've shown.
Maksutov- and Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes are modern, enhanced types of the classical-Cassegrain from the 1600s; the Maksutov originating in 1941, and the Schmidt in the 1950s. Have you ever had either one of those?
It's interesting in that there have been no truly new designs of telescopes since the 1600s.