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I started with a 4" tasco reflector (which hooked me well and truly when I saw saturn through it), moved to a 10" dob, then to a 15" obsession, then a 4" TV refractor, then a 10" SCT. This all happened over quite a number of years of course.
I must admit to looking at all of the dob ads in the classifieds and thinking that I would like to get one for pure visual. There's something about a dob that's nice and easy to use. You just plonk it down and get to it! With my SCT, I wheel it out, polar align it, drift align it, hook it up to a computer, set focus on the guidescope and main scope and on it goes. It's not simple like setting a dob up and having a browse around the heavens.
It's all horses for courses though. If you want to do imaging, setting up isn't so much of a problem as a necessity, and I don't mind doing it at all. For pure visual, however, you can't beat a big dob and a chair to star hop around the heavens with!
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