Well after weeks of studying scopes and prices, i narrowed it down to four scopes 1, celestron nexstar 90slt mak 2. dob skywatcher 8inch 3. skywatcher syn scan 130p newt. 4. skywatcher skymax 102 mak. I bought the choice 3. but...........a few beefs about the syn scan handset, there`s no on off switch on the main mount, you have to pull the power socket out, and when you power back on the time and date has to be put in again, also it does not ask you for your country your in, only time zone , i suppose its early days yet has i have only owned this for three days so i may be doing it wrong? tried a factory reset but still does not ask for my country, goes on to +- time zone. any one else had this problem. i have not star aligned it yet, has weather has been ****, scope seems ok been looking at far away trees in shed door way! oh yeah batteries don`t last 5 mins, i have used a multi power adapter with different ends on, set it at 9 volts has the 12 volts setting puts 17.1 volts in to the motor, when checked on hand set! the park scope mode is good feature. we shall see how it performs when we get clear skies. bye for now.