surburban london telescope for adult, all bells and whistles ?

[cloudbase]

Thanks for this LouisJB - I'll look all this up, amazed how much there is going on!

[RobertI]

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The scope will best be left out all the time, so I can see we might have to rope off part of the house for all this :-)

[RobertI]

Sorry, struggling with tiny mobile phone keyboard, regarding your comment above if a scope is stored in the house it can take between 30 and 90 minutes to adjust to the outside temp when you take it out. The larger the scope the longer it takes generally. It is really important to ensure the scope has cooled down sufficiently before use and makes a massive difference to the what you can see. If you can safely store it in a shed or garage that would be best as it will need less time to equalise the temp when you get it out. Something to bear in mind when planning the logistics!