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Thanks a lot for all the advice. The ZWO Seestar S50 looked really interesting, but I took note of the advice to actually ask my son, and he ended up prefering the Sky-Watcher Skyliner Flextube 250P. He really wanted the manual experience rather than the automation.

Hi, My son's birthday is coming up, and I plan to gift him a new telescope. He currently has a 3d-printed "Hadley" telescope, which has been great fun and learning, but he would like something a bit better and more stable. We live in a fairly light-polluted area, so it would be nice to have something that is not too hard to transport, but he would probably mostly be using it from our backyard. I have been looking at telescopes like "Sky-Watcher Skyliner Flextube 250P", "Sky-Watcher Skyliner 200P Flextube SynScan Go-To" and "Celestron StarSense Explorer 10"". I am not quite sure about how important the go-to features are. He has been spending a bit too much time finding objects compared to observing them with his current telescope, but perhaps that is just due to the instability of the mount? I would guess that would be much better with the Dobsonian mount? Any recommendations? He is 18 years old. Cheers, Rasmus.