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Hi Mitchell, Welcome to IIS!
As a beginner, you may find an equatorial mount to be inconvenient to use, unless you intend to do manual tracking. I am assuming it is not motor driven and only has two slow motion control knobs (RA and Dec).
If you just wish to observe visually & casually, then a Dobsonian mounted 150mm (6") reflector would be much better and cheaper purchase.
A GS 200mm (8") Dob can be purchased for $399 - cheaper, more aperture, a better scope and easy to use.
Cheers
John
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