[mikeInAlaska]

In my 20 years of experience under the stars, nothing beats the aesthetics of a refractor with a binoviewer. If I was starting again I would get a 4 inch refractor and put a binoviewer on it with a pair of 24mm panoptics.

[dreamcompiler]

That's a nice setup but it's a multi-thousand dollar proposition if you want good optics. Perhaps a bit steep for a beginner.