I'm cheap and I use an Orion 90mm Maksutov Cassegrain telescope with a 500mm focal length.

It has more aperture than an 82mm scope and that translates in to resolution.

Also the Mak design is less prone to chromatic aberration so it doesn't need fancy glass which means they are cheap. They also seem to be discontinued so when you find one used they are really cheap because its more of a spotter than a telescope and most people bought them as a telescope.

Any way, I bought two used for about $150 total and I have about $100 more in used heavy duty Bogen by Manfrotto tripods and fine adjust movements. The tripods are super stable which is great because a shaky scope is almost worse than a scope with poor glass.