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Originally Posted by traveller
Welcome to IIS Ken,
I only joined recently and found this site to be very friendly and informative.
Re your question about telescope, what is your budget? $1000? $5000? What do you want to do? Casual observing? Taking it out to star parties or imaging?
IF you are starting out a Dob is great, but it has limitations, such as its size and lack of Goto and tracking (newer Dobs have these, at increased $$ of course).
I did a bit of research before I bought my C8SE, its great, very portable, 5 mins to set up and good to do very basic planetary imaging. The only limitation is the single arm mount. Don't get me wrong, Dobs are great, but its not the most easy to lug around. Celestrons in Aust are horribly overpriced, but this forum has a trades section which good set ups come up quite often, at least you know the scoep comes from someone with similar interest and looked after their equipment properly.
Good luck with your choices.
Bo
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size doesnt really concern me. from the limited research ive done, the dob will give the best viewing for the money. the bintel models look good for the price. if the 10" is awesome, then the 12 bintel for under 900 would have to be pretty special.
the scope will be used on my front lawn initially(i live in a rural area on the edge of town), and packed into the car for all night viewing on warm summer nights at the top of the small mountain 3km from home. so viewing in detail is the main aim, but would be nice to take home some snaps of the nights views aswell.
is it not possible to get fair landscape type pics of the moon using the large dobson and a dslr or webcam? is it the tracking that is the issue? looks like the dobson with goto 8" is around 1600. bit out of my range for a first scope. hmm so much to choose from. dont wanna be selling the scope in a few months to up-grade.
thanks for the advice guys, appreciated.
ken.