[Hagar (Doug)]

As stated above this question is asked an awful lot on this and every other forum.
Based on the prices of some equipment a lot of the answers are now quite out of date. What I am really asking is what do you think is the best way to go when providing this sort of advice to someone new to the field they are looking at.
I have broken the poll into 2 parts, Visual Astronomy and Astrophotography. Both of these have seen many of us change scopes etc on a very regular basis and in some cases we have made purchases which were less than suitable for the task at hand.

Lets not get into a war based on brands and prices but rather give some explanation as to why our choice has been made. Take into account things such as future upgrading, what to expect etc etc.

This probably should have been split int 2 polls one for visual and one for astrophotography. Please consider the Dobsonian telescopes for Visual only in this poll or at least write your reasoning for any inclusion of a Dob for astrophotography.

This poll is set to run for 60 days after which I will attempt to summarise the results.

Thanks