Gday Auto,
Maybe this might be a little left field of what your thinking but do you own a good pair of binos?
Easy to take camping with you and totally practical if you need to walk somewhere.
Refractor like optics and you get to use both eyes as well.
I started my journey in astronomy by looking through my dads binos last year a few times while we were out fishing and its what got me hooked. They were just ordinary binos nothing like the astro ones either.
This may sound funny but the other night I was out with my dob and I was looking through my finderscope (which is straight through 8 x 50) and thinking to my self wow these views are great. At the same time I also really felt like I had missed some progression by not starting off with something a little smaller and appreciating the bigger picture. Kind of like the saying " you can't see the forest from the trees" if you know what I mean.
Anyway good luck and I hope you find something.
Cheers
Simmo
