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HE ozzi,
I am by no way an expert and am relatively new to the hobby also but here are my two cents.
As has been suggested I would start of with a dobsonian. (My first scope was a 10' skywatcher Dob) These are very simple to use and give great views. You dont need power or a battery pack to run them, you can be set up in minutes, quick to pack up, and they have the added benefit of forcing you to learn your way around the sky.
Later on you can look at getting an equatorial mount (I have just mounted my scope of a Skywatcher EQ6).
The benefits I found in doing it this way was that I wasn't trying to learn everything at once. Having the dob for quite some time I had a good understanding of where things in the sky are etc etc.
I wasnt trying to learn this at the same time as trying to learn about how to set the Mount up, polar alignment, drift alignment, tracking etc etc etc.
I figured that the stars were always going to be there and so i would take my time and learn bit by bit.
Just some of my thoughts
Matt
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