The 8" Newtonian + equatorial mount was just a suggestion about the visual approach i want, hence i am 187cm and will manage the height. But the body positions will be strange, i admit. Since i am from Bulgaria, here the Orion belt, per example, is straight ahead from my terrace, but everything else will be sometimes at 90dg upwards, so yes this is my last option. The fact is that here we don’t have astro-clubs. The only place where i can see a telescope is in my city central walking street, where a guy every night deploys a 8” dubsonian, and in the photo stores and malls where one can only see Celestron Astromaster 70/90 AZ at most. So i cant’t actually see and touch by myself what’s will my best option. I have experience with my other hobby - airgun shooting. There there is 2 main categories : spring or pcp. I knew i want pcp but still inopted for the spring and in matter of 2 months i was involved with selling the spring and getting pcp of my type, not a gun for shootouts, not a gun with Star Trek design, but a good high power pcp gun for my pleasure. So all this is to explain why i want at least goto mount, what I want - visual and eye observing, minimal to non astrography. But still from the beginning - i don’t want a “white elephant” telescope to stay somewhere in my apartment. The Bresser Messier MCX-127 have a double fork, and i have read that this is very stable base mainly for imaging, but i assume and for amateur first steps in observation. I honestly don’t have a deep research about the quality of different telescope brands, but i definitely want a high quality build brand telescope. Celestron Evo are just above my very budget top, so for now i will ruled them out. I don’t mind to by a second hand scope as well; a tube and goto mount separately too. That’s why i need ideas, brands, models within what i have already cleared out in my mind - visual mainly planets, Moon, some bright deep skies Recently i watched Sky Watcher Skymax 150 and goto tripod mount for this scope. What you think about it?