For a beginner please give me your thoughts on these two choices (saxon) I have come down to? I want to see both day landscapes and night skies, portable, easy set up, good to excellent clarity??? and under $400.00.
705AZ3
70mm aperture, 500mm focal length. Short-tube land and astronomical viewing telescope, 500mm multi-coated achromatic objective lens, f/7, AZ3 mount, 1.25" 45° erect image diagonal and 3X Barlow lens extremely good for terrestrial viewing, spotting-use, three 1.25" eyepieces give brighter and sharper image, 5x24 finderscope, good quality AZ3 alt-azimuth mount tripod.
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709AZ3
70mm aperture, 900mm focal length. Multi-coated achromatic 90mm objective lens, f/13, AZ3 mount, three 1.25" eyepieces give brighter and sharper image, 1.25" 45° erect image diagonal for terrestrial use, 5x24 finderscope, dew cap/sunshade & aluminum tripod. The telescope has 36% greater light gathering capacity than traditional beginner 60mm scope, long focal length allows high magnification (up to 675x),
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