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As we have noted, much depends upon your circumstances as an observer, and on your main interests. One great advantage of a budget telescope is that it will certainly be lightweight enough to be portable, so that if you happen to live in a badly light-polluted area you can simply put the telescope in your car and drive into the country. If you are not a car owner and live in the middle of a city, the best solution is to move home – but of course this isn’t always practical! There’s some good advice for city dwellers in Bob Mizon’s book (from Springer), Light Pollution: Responses and Remedies.
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Moore, P., Watson, J. (2012). How to Use a Budget Telescope. In: Astronomy with a Budget Telescope. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2161-0_3
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