You may just want to get something called a Dobsonian telescope, we have the old version of the Meade you have pictured in your original post, and it is a piece of crap, it is so difficult to use and the motors are always broken. For first-timers, the Dobsonian is really easy and hard to break if your not careful (it's a really simple design, long tube with a collector at the bottom that focuses to an eyepiece 3/4 of the way to the top. If used pretty much every type of ocular scope, here at G'town we have an observatory that I help run.

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