I would say the standard. For your first scope a dob mounted newtonian reflector will give you the best bang for your buck. After a while you can mount it on a GEM like Mike and Ving have done for photography if that is your passion. Also, if refractors come into the picture they will come in their own time but they are much more expensive for the aperture and suffer from chromatic abberation (splitting the light into its colours on bright objects) unless you get a really good one.
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