However, in reality you probably will never get anywhere near that amount of magnification and still have a good image. This is because of bad seeing conditions which is caused by hot and cold air mixing in the atmosphere. This will make your image blured and deform at high power. What you have to remember is this, if you magnify the image, you also magnify the atmospheric conditions as well. There are three basic types of mountings, Dobsonian, altazimuth and equatorial mounts.
Dobsonian mounts are mounts for Newtonian reflectors that are altazimuth in design.
They are extremely stable because they are very low to the ground and they are made of wood. They have bearings made of nylon or teflon which allows it to move in altitude or azimuth very smoothly. The greatest quality of the Dobsonian mount is that it is very inexpensive, it works well and it can even be made easily at home by any good D.I.Y. handyman. Standard altazimuth mounts are used mostly on refractors. They work like the Dobsonian mount but they are much less stable.