SpaceForce

Wow... very good pics. 😮 Amazing.

Hi Friends, I am very new to this group and actually joined today only. Since childhood I loved to watch skies and used to play a game of star counting. This is because I grew up in very remote place where there was no electricity for hundreds of miles and a typical night with clear skies is feast for eyes. Since then I had an inherent reverence to the heaven. Long story short, now after 4 decades, I am now in most light polluted cities and miss those days of wonderful nights where I still remember seeing milky-way covering the entire sky. So now I am in need of telescope to return to sky gazing once again. I bought a 20x80 binoculars and slowly looking to get a good startup telescope gear for visual and gradually capture some photos of planets, clusters, galaxies etc... Could you suggest what kind of telescopes should I buy as first telescope? Refractor Vs SCTs. My budget to start with is around 1000 GBP. ( I know it is a tiny budget, but... ) So wish me good. Thanks for reading my introduction. Peace and Clear Skies.