Thanks...i have enquired about the loaners from them.
Yep, i get the difference. I guess i am just trying to make sure that for what i want to do i am getting the best value.
I see a lot of smaller refractors for the same dollars...do people buy them cos they can afford the fancy mount so they can take longer exposures to compensate for less aperture?
Does anyone know of any comparo pics of stuff through different sized scopes? There is reams of stuff written about them but it could be easily explained to us noobs by pictures i reckon