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Re-re-re-research on candidates of my first telescope

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Umcompromised minimum standard:
1. details on rings of Saturn
2. cloud belts on Jupiter
3. deep sky objects, such as clusters, nebulae
4. Mars cannot just be an orange disc (typical $300- toys’ visibility)
 
That’s almost that. Price range?! hum…any number under $600USD
 
Here’s a list of candidates:
Celestron NexStar 4 GT $439 (no tripod) 102mm Maksutov-Cassegrain
Celestron C6 $399 N 150mm Newtonian Reflector
Celestron NexStar 114 GT $365 114mm Reflector
Celestron NexStar 114 SLT $409 114mm Newtonian Reflector
Meade ETX-90AT $599 90mm Maksutov-Cassegrain
Meade DS-2130ATS $399 130mm Short Tube Reflecting
Meade DS-2114ATS $419 114mm Newtonian Reflector
Meade LXD75 N-6EC $599 152mm Newtonian
 
I personally prefer Maksutov or Schmidt, but it looks like within my budget range, reflectors have better performance/price ratio.
 
Now here comes the question "when". It’s obsolutely a doodad which could set in the way of my cash flow. But on the other side, it’s obsolutely a doodad of my dream. It reqires my delay gratification comes into play. So the answer is "it will be soon".

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