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My first scope was an ETX90EC, about 5 years ago. To be honest it was (and still is) a wonderful scope. Being a long focal length maksutov design it is great for planets (which you are mostly limited to with light pollution) but being so small and portable it is the type of scope that you can easily drag along with you when you travel, yet with only 90mm aperture you will still be able to see many deep sky objects from a dark site. With the tour function, you don't even need to know what objects are out there, you just do your initial alignment with the telescope and then tell it to select the nights best objects, and it will slew to them automatically. As a newbie to the hobby, I was able to see 20+ objects in under an hour using this feature.
Great beginner scope, and if you are like me and enjoy the introduction to astronomy, you might get a larger scope down the track (I now own a 10" scope to complement my etx)
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