I have the 12 inch (300mm) auto-tracking version of this scope. The only difference is that mine has a different (non-goto) hand controller.
I think you will find it to be an excellent first scope. It is well made and gives good views.
There is an issue which seems to be common to the motorized skywatcher dobs where the azimuth axis has some looseness or 'play'. This means that when you push it, it moves a couple of degrees very easily (too easily) before the bearing starts to provide resistance. This makes it difficult to aim accurately by pushing it manually and difficult to track objects manually.
However, I find that if I only use the motors to do fine adjustments then it's not an issue. It should be even less of an issue with the goto version.
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