Hey Terry, Don't do it! That's my advice, now here's why. These telescopes are cheaply built with poor optics, poor finder scopes, poor mounts, poor eyepieces, and poor tripods. I hope I haven't offended anyones telescope, but I have seen many people, who don't know better, become frustrated with these awfull scopes. If you only have a couple hundred dollars to spend, you can do a lot better by buying a good pair of binoculars instead. If you really want a telescope, find a local astronomy club and ask around. Sometimes they have "star parties" where you can look through various makes and models of scopes and get a better feel for what you want. You will probably find you'll need about $500 dollars for an entry level scope that's not a toy like the scopes you mentioned. I guarantee you will be dissapointed with these small refractors. The view through these toys are shakey, fuzzy, and dim and will ruin astronomy for you. Meade makes fine scopes, but stay away from the one you mentioned. Tasco makes junk, pure and simple. Good luck.......Terry Terry Lisansky http://udel.edu/~lisansky Give me a fast ship........ For I intend to go in harms way. On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, radar wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Just asking for an opinion. I appologize if this message should not be > posted here. Any replies, please direct them back to my own email address. > > I am researching to purchase my first telescope. I have decided on the > side. I am going to get a 90mm Refractor. I have looked at what looks like > to be the two leading manufacturers (Meade and Tasco). Can anyone offer up > any opinions as to which one to go with? Any other comments to help me with > my decision? > > Regards, > > Terry > >