Ask HN: Any recommended beginner friendly space telescope?

[qatanah]

A view of Jupiter and Saturn would be nice.

[basicplus2]

I have a Skywatcher refractor telescope and can recommend them.

Refractors give a nice contrasty image for planets in our solar system.

I would say they are probably something like 1/5th the cost you usually need to spend for the same image quality.

http://skywatcher.com/category/telescopes/