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Originally Posted by dissentowner

For reference this was my beginner scope.
http://khanscope.com/collections/mea...lescope-205005

That seems... very expensive. $1000 is a tough sell for a new hobby with a second baby on the way, haha.

So is something like this one not very good:

https://www.amazon.ca/Celestron-2104...ords=celestron

Or this:

https://www.amazon.ca/Celestron-2104...ords=celestron

I mean, I know they aren't amazing but they're not Toys R Us "my first telescope" either. What's the main difference -- amount of zoom, ease of tracking, image quality, etc.? How big of a quality gap are we talking about?

Or, in that price range, is it better to get a pair of high end binoculars, as suggested above?