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Old 19-12-2008, 08:20 PM
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Welcome to the forum and into the hobby...

Based on your post, I suspect that you are a good candidate for binoculars. I'd avoid the smaller telescope completely for now particularly if galaxies are your thing of interest.

I've not had much binocular experience so I won't offer any "insightful" comments (I don't have any).

You will be able to see a lot of interesting things through binoculars. Do know that big pairs of binoculars can be difficult if not impossible to hold steady by hand so you should also consider a way to mount the binoculars.

I hope that you get some good advice and again, welcome to the forum and the wide open world of astronomy!

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