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Hi Jowell
Good initial shopping list. THe Saxon and Skywatcher are both made by the same Chinese company (Synta). All the rest is good only I probably wouldn't get the barlow at this stage. You have a 25 and 10 mm ep ATM. Barlow the 25 and it gives you 12.5mm, barlow the 10 and you get 5mm. 5mm is 250x which is really pushing a 10" scope. I can get to 215x in my 12" but almost never use go that high. 12.5mm gives you 100x which is OK but you already have 125x with the 10mm. I would consider getting a good quality 15mm EP (Televue Plossl would be my pick but may be a bit pricey!) That would give you 50x, 83x and 150x with no extra glass or bits to fiddle with in the dark.
Also try to add in some good charts! Yes I know Stellarium is good, but you cannot use a computer while at the eyepiece and printing out charts beforehand is fine, as long as you know what you are going to look at.
Malcolm
PS My nearly favourite accessory is a little lightweight folding table that I have to put all my bits and bobs. Nothing worse than trying to find things on the ground.
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