re: Thinking buying a telescope. Any OT amateur astronomers recommendations?

Another thing to remember is this: when you are looking online to see what certain objects will look like through a certain size scope, most pics you see are time-elapsed photos taken with filters. Most things won't look like that. Things like Nebula won't be all colorful, Jupiter won't be colorful with a big red spot, etc. Everything will look like white light with a lot less detail or definition..