Chris Jones wrote:
Looking at a scope for the family with good results, had an offer for
the above £275 nearly new, would it be too difficult for a beginner,

No. It's intended to be a beginner's scope. I personally believe that
you get better VFM if you forego the computerised stuff and get better
optics and mount but, that said, it's reasonable.

but also is it big enough for us to grow into?

You could spend a lifetime and not exhaust its possibilities but, that
said, some of those possibilities would be easier with other scopes.
Alastair Thomson (who posts here) has a site on small telescopes and I
have a book on them -- consider this: you will have light-gathering
capacity that Charles Messier could only dream of!

Best,
Stephen

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