Hello everyone im buying my first ever telescope! And astronomy is one of my new hobbies I really want to get into and with my budget of around 200/250€. And after a lot of research on what were the best or at least the ones who would give me the most guarantees I landed on 2 scopes that im torn between which are the 2 I listed in the title, the Evostar 90/900 refractor and the Explorer 130/900 reflector, I do have an intrest in deeping my toes into astrophotography has I do already own a DSLR, im still figuring out the adapters I might need.
So I wanted to know your guys' suggestion on which I should get.
Any help is really apreciatted!
#Which do I get?
tardy sequoia
fringe cargo
Ur plan on astrophotography won't work well
With such a low budget you either have to choose if you want to do visual astronomy or astrophotography. For visual get a 5" dobsonian, which is very good (at your budget) but the thing about dobsonians is they are very bad for photographing deepsky
So yeah
tardy sequoia
With such a low budget you either have to choose if you want to do visual astron...
Im aware of that, I want something mainly visual but that will alow me to start learning and figuring out things about astrophotography. And that with a couple of upgrades in the future it could become a really nice rig
hazy venture
Im aware of that, I want something mainly visual but that will alow me to start ...
probably used the only option for that budget unfortunately
tardy sequoia
probably used the only option for that budget unfortunately
Tbh I never thought of that, I am limited as I live in Portugal and its a very, very, very niche hobby here, I will check some websites and try and see what I can find
tardy sequoia
Not exactly what I was looking for but just found a 152/1200 Dobsonian for 250€ 😄
And also found the exact same 130/900 newtonian I was looking at for only 100€
tardy sequoia
also just found these motor drives that are pretty cheap that help counter earths rotation, that seems like a really nice adition if I were to get the newtonian
hazy venture
also just found these motor drives that are pretty cheap that help counter earth...
Those motor drives are only for eq mounts right?
hazy venture
Not exactly what I was looking for but just found a 152/1200 Dobsonian for 250€ ...
The 150mm dob would be best for visual compared to the 130
tardy sequoia
Those motor drives are only for eq mounts right?
Yeah the newtonian I was looking at is an EQ-2 mount
Thank you for the help, I think im gonna go for the newtonian, as good as the dob would be, visually, one of the main reasons I was getting a scope was to get into astrophotography with my dad,its one of the reasons I was so excited about it.