I have finally bought the telescope:
Sky-Watcher Startravel-150 (EQ-5) Achromatic Refractor Telescope (10926/20464) - Wex Photographic
Substantially cheaper second hand obviously. I went for the refractor as although it's quite bulky the use of lenses and lack of secondary mirror means that inch for inch light gathering capacity is higher than a similar sized reflector. Being a cheaper design it will suffer from some chromatic aberration but this can be fixed fairly well with a filter so it should still be good for photography.
I have my eye on one of these on ebay as well, it'll fit straight on the same tripod / mount. So I might end up with two scopes.
Sky-Watcher Skymax-150 PRO Maksutov-Cassegrain OTA (10885) - Wex Photographic
Next step is to wait for the sky to clear
Sky-Watcher Startravel-150 (EQ-5) Achromatic Refractor Telescope (10926/20464) - Wex Photographic
Substantially cheaper second hand obviously. I went for the refractor as although it's quite bulky the use of lenses and lack of secondary mirror means that inch for inch light gathering capacity is higher than a similar sized reflector. Being a cheaper design it will suffer from some chromatic aberration but this can be fixed fairly well with a filter so it should still be good for photography.
I have my eye on one of these on ebay as well, it'll fit straight on the same tripod / mount. So I might end up with two scopes.
Sky-Watcher Skymax-150 PRO Maksutov-Cassegrain OTA (10885) - Wex Photographic
Next step is to wait for the sky to clear
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