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Originally posted by ballaratdragons
Hi Blitz,
Welcome to another Victorian.
We could all recommend different telescopes and where to get them, but we need to know what type of viewing you want to do.
Deep Space, Planetary, both?
Scope: Reflector? Refractor? etc.
We will help you find a good bargain if we can, and not buy crap.
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Thanks ballaratdragons!
Well, my interest is both deep space and planetary. I'd really like to see mars as best I can, and the rings of saturn.. I'd also like to see what deep space has to offer. I'm in a country town here with very little interferring street light, and a hill 500m away that is basically free from street light, so I was thinking a reflector would probably do the job nicely.
But of course that means it needs to be fairly portable, and of course being my first steps into this, I'd prefer to try and keep the price around $500, unless I can see a reason to up it a bit.
I don't really understand how the base types affect your viewing, so having equatorial, azalt (or whatever it's called) and dobson don't mean too much to me at the moment.