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Here: https://www.widescreen-centre.co.uk/sky-watcher-explorer-130ps-az5-telescope.html
The tripod and mount are a new style to me, it looks robust from the pictures but I'd give it a wobble in person before buying.
As you can see, this scope: https://www.widescreen-centre.co.uk/all-sky-watcher-newtonian-reflector-telescopes.html?scroll=1368
Is 50% telescope and 50% mount by price, OTA : Telescope tube only. An EQ5 mount is the minimum I'd bother with.
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Here: https://www.widescreen-centre.co.uk/sky-watcher-explorer-130ps-az5-telescope.html
Possibly showing my lack of knowledge here, but what's with the price difference and the same size Dobsonian that I have? (https://www.widescreen-centre.co.uk/sky-watcher-heritage-130p-flextube-parabolic-dobsonian-telescope.html)
It's still an Alt-Azimuth mount but just offers finer control? I mean they also have an similar EQ mounted scope for cheaper here: https://www.widescreen-centre.co.uk/sky-watcher-explorer-130p-parabolic-newtonian-reflector-telescope.html
I'm sure there's a valid reason for the pricing, but it just seems odd that (admittedly at a glance) that you're getting a similar scope with an alt-azimuth mount and paying more than an EQ mount. (I know very little about the various EQ mounts, the one linked is an EQ2 so may be complete trash for all I know)
mmccarthy
So for 250, what would you suggest?