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One more thing!
It's probably a good idea to go to a star party and have a look through a few scopes and get an idea of what things look like through a telescope. You may already know this, but even a large telescope is not going to collect enough light to provide the kind of image that you see in astrophotography. Bear in mind that whilst you'll see colours on Jupiter and Mars and Saturn's rings etc, your views of deep sky objects will be spectacular in monochrome as you will be using your night vision. (star will show colour, but not nebulae or galaxies)
Sorry if I'm telling you something that you're already aware of, but it often seems to me that people buy telescopes without a clear idea of what they may see and express some disappointment at the monochrome universe they encounter.
I'm sure there will be something happening with the astro society of SA or even some local IISers might be willing to show you some things through their scopes.
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