Ok, I'm new to the forum and, though I've had a lifelong interest in astronomy, I've never bought any serious equipment.
I've spent months researching whatever I can and have a few problems:
1. I have a severe shortage of storage space (and money!), which rules out any of the larger-aperture scopes
2. My garden' s overlooked by a couple of yellow street lights (I realise that I can buy LP filters but have no idea how effective they are)
3. I need a good all-round scope as I'd like to view planets, double stars and at least the brighter DSOs.
Now the ridiculous part: I've narrowed down my prospective scopes into two very different bits of kit. The first is the Skywatcher 150 flextube dob and the second the 6" Schmidt-Cassegrain Starsense Explorer.
I realise they are vastly different in price but both have the virtue of fairly small overall dimensions for the max aperture.
Any opinions or do you think I'm just crazy? 😛