Cheapest scope for seeing colour...

[NickH]

Oh yeah baby...now you're talking!!

That's more than half way to being the Oschin Telescope on Palomar...

What a beauty!!

[johninderby]

I reckon you'd see colour in that

About an f/2.5 I'd say. Wonder if he uses a coma corrector?

John

[brantuk]

It's a nice choice of scope - I had the 6" one for 3 years and was well happy with it - so you'll get 2" more hapiness than I did lol

Seriously though - so long as you don't expect colour beyond the solar system you'll be delighted. If you do change your mind down the line it'll be highly re-sellable (but that's unlikely). Don't forget a collimator and red light (very useful accessories).

[yeti monster]

Now that's a BIG dob!

That sky watcher will get you some pleasant, albeit grey, views of a lot of the skies (can't tell the size of the scope). My 114 mm newt is very pleasing and quite satesfactory for the time being. Even a decent pair of binoculars are going to bring things out that your eyes can't pick up.

[pvaz]

An 8" scope is a good scope. I have one and I'm very pleased with it.

If you plan to do strictly visual work you could save some money and get a dobsonian scope instead, such as this:

Dobsonians - Skywatcher Skyliner 200P Dobsonian

Dobsonians - Skywatcher Skyliner 250PX Dobsonian

[themos]

What if you use a binoviewer with different colour filters...

[haitch]

What if you use a binoviewer with different colour filters...

If you use a red filter in one eye and a cyan in the other you get to see in 3D

[LukeSkywatcher]

I've never really given a second thought to only seeing most night sky objects in grey or white. Sure i've seen the colour photos but when i'm observing them....they (objects) just make sense to me. How amazing would it be if our eyes were ubber sensitive and could see colour through our scopes etc.