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I'm with Jen. Seriously though, we upgraded from a small telescope to a dob (10 inch newtonian reflector) to get bigger aperture for not much money. Then we got a refractor for its tack sharp, high contrast, beautiful views that only refractors can give. Refractors don't come in large apertures (at least not affordably) but they are portable so the refractor is our most used scope. Then we got a 9.25 inch Schmidt-Cassegrain on an equatorial mount for the tracking, goto and ability to break up into smaller pieces for portability. With a focal ratio of f/5 the dob has a wider field of view than the SCT so it's good for larger deep sky objects. The SCT is f/10 and does better than the dob on planets. It's also better to have a tracking mount for viewing planets at high powers.
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