I'm a big fan of maks, but I still use my large Dob just as much. so here goes my list of favorites.

Synta Maksutov 150mm with 1900mm focal length - This ones a real hummer, every star party and astro meet people comment on how rich the contrast is on planetary vewing, not a sloucher on DS's either. A bit heavy to lug around though.

Skywatcher Mak 102mm 1300 focal length - This is one little champ to have as a grab and go, fantastic contrast and great dep sky viewing. I ended up ditching its EQ head, kept the tripod and used the ioptron goto cube head on the skywatcher mount. This made it very stable and usable as a cheap gps goto system.

GSO 10" dob with crayford and fan cooled mirror (www.andrewscom.com.au) - This thing kicks. The best DSO hunter in the hood. I have freinds in the astro frat that have taken some of the best astro photo's I've seen with it. IceInSpace have em to check out thanks to Peter Bester.

Ioptron 80mm refractor - reasonable wide scan DSO scope on low powers, sharp optics very clear but useless on planetary and medium to high mag use

I have a new website (still a bit green) at www.dazzastar.com feel free to have a look and offer some sugestions.