Hey everyone,
Due to the current events, my wife and myself are looking into telescopes as a casual hobby to pass the time. However, we live in light polluted northern NJ suburbs and are looking for recommendations. The Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ caught my eye as it is at the uppermost limit of my budget for this hobby and looks pretty decent.
However, my wife wants to take pictures with her phone or DSLR camera. What would be a good affordable telescope for our location? We are also looking for portability as we have a vacation house by the beach which offers much less light pollution. As for magnification we pretty much want to see the rings of Saturn and moons of Jupiter.
We are pretty much set on a reflective telescope due to how compact they are compared to refractive.