Hi everyone, thanks so much for your advice
To begin with, we were favouring the NexStar 130SLT Computerized Telescope because it sounded like it would be easy to find things with but we didn't know if it would do what we wanted or be any good.
Most of the responses here seem pretty much for the 10' dob so we are looking at getting the 10' skywatcher and the size would not really be much of a problem as we probably will just use it here at home. We live about 15 kms out of town and we could take a short drive onto a neighbouring property which has the moresby ranges on it which is about as high as we can get here in Geraldton.
The next question would be what is the best way to locate planets etc in the sky??
And also what about additional eye pieces?
Thanks
Anne