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Thank's for the replies so far guys.
I did happen to find an old pair of 7x50 binos at home, but unfortunately I tried my actual first night of star gazing using a piece of equipment, rather than just my eyes and found that without a mount, even with the relative small size of these binos, I couldn't hold it still. The shaking ruined the experience for me, but certainly didn't turn me off.
Sil, the 4" dob sounds really good as I am just looking now for a surface scratcher for now, just to get my bearings on the night sky.
I do have a couple other questions though;
with alot of people advising binos for a begginner, would a spotting scope be just as good? For some reason I like the idea of having a spotting scope that I can hold onto well after I spent thousands on big scopes.
Also, can anyone reccommend somewhere on the web to learn how and where to actually find the objects in the sky ie;Planets, Nebula ect.. As I have a rather large knowledge on the actual solar system already, my problem is the pin pointing of objects and where to look.
Have to say again how awesome this site really is. I'm a member of another Astro community site ( shall remain unnamed ) and the help there is comes in a very short manner and takes along time for a reply to come about. So THANK YOU!
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