Telescope help for a beginner

Ive posted this on another newsgroup and had some good advice, plus website
http://www.scsastro.co.uk/ was also mentioned to me.
As a beginner can anyone here offer any advice ? my original post is below
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in a couple of days i reach the Big 38 .... ive been asked what i would
like and have always quite fancied
a decent telescope, one thats reasonably capable - ie one that i could look
really closely at the moon with but also see objects such as this advert
quotes ie "the rings of Saturn, the satellites of Jupiter, and the Orion
Nebula (M42); to more difficult objects such as the Ring Nebula (M57) in
Lyra, the Spiral Galaxy (M33) in Triangulum, and the Sombrero Galaxy (M104)
in Virgo; to very obscure objects near the telescope's threshold of
visibility such as the diffuse nebula NGC 6559 in Sagittarius, the galactic
star cluster NGC 1778 in Auriga, and the spiral galaxy NGC 3310 in Ursa
Major"

It comes with a "goto" system which would be ideal for me as ive no idea of
using a telescope efficiently as yet ..!
I would be using it away from street light pollution etc so clear dark skies
would be the order of the day.
Ive heard of Reflectors , Refractors etc , the one below has a
"Maksutov-Cassegrain optical tube assembly" and all in all seems like a
good buy ??? would anyone have any ideas? for 500 pounds it seems like
one
that would be pretty good and last for years...


http://www.skyviewoptics.co.uk/produ...=509&type=sale



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