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Thanks guys.
to reply to ice before, I cannot remember how I stumbled across the forum but after a little lurking I thought I'd post when I was about to spend my money (so as not to waste it)
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It is my first scope, I have 15x70 Binoculars which I find very nice but would love to look at more deep sky objects where a larger apature would help.
I was looking at getting a meade ETX105; but they are about the most I would like to spend, leaving no money for extras, and seeing as they are more suited to planetery observing this made me want a newt with a larger apature.
One other scope I was looking at was the Celestron 130 thingy with GOTO controller, but again quite expensive.
Then I saw the Orion 8" push to intelliscope; but they are hard to import (cheap in US tho).
Anyhow then I decided on a cheaper scope and I'll just spend the time to learn where to point it (I have a few objects that I like in my bino's already(had them a year now)).
I'm from scotland living in Kalgoorlie WA, where the skys are immense.
I fancy the sound of a very wide AFOV eye piece; so I think I'll get the 30mm GS one from andrews, and probably a barlow too.
Again thanks for the help, I'll keep posting with my progress.
Mint
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