Buying a telescope £500 budget

[kiko_uk]

Hi guys new to here. I have £500 budget and I’m after something half decent so would appreciate any feedback what I can get for £500. Thanks guys 

[John]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

I think we need to know quite a bit more about the sort of astronomy that you might be interested in to make a recommendation.

There are many, many telescopes available for £500 and they all have strengths and weaknesses.

The sort of things to be thinking about are:

- Does your budget include a mount for the telescope ?

- Are you interested mostly in visual observing or imaging with the scope ?

- Do you need the scope to be compact / portable ?

- Are you more interested in the planets or deep sky objects such as galaxies, nebulae etc ?

- Can you use the equipment under dark skies or do you have light pollution to content with ?

Give us some more to go on and we will be glad to help