Beginners visual only OTA

[lvan]

+1 for the Heritage 130. It's light, easy to set up, easy to use, easy to pack away, easy to store, it's affordable, it's decent aperture, it's apochromatic, it will show you a lot, you can take it on the bus, you can carry it with one hand to the park, you can flat pack it and take it abroad on holiday. If the hobby takes off and you acquire other scopes you'll still have a use for it. If you have one, there's no excuse not to observe. If you don't have one, you're probably not observing as much as you could be. I don't even like dobs, i prefer refractors but in my opinion this is a no brainer.