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In the site menu at the left, click on 'Our community' and you'll find a list of clubs around Melbourne; if you could get to a public viewing night you can see for yourself what each scope will show.
The Celestron CPC and Meade LX90's are very good scopes and easy to use - being fork mounted they can also be quite heavy. The fork and tube assembly weighs about 50 pounds for the 10" LX90 and about 65 pounds for the 11" CPC.
If you're not certain about your choice of scope or how strong your interest is in the hobby there are cheaper options such as a 10" Dobsonian, which will show nebulae, star clusters and galaxies just as well as the other scopes can. In general objects are faint and grey as viewed through the scope (not like pictures).
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