Yeah, I didn't know about EAA until I GoFish (Jim) over at the CN forums brought it up based on my requirements.
I'm going to quote from his post (thread link here:
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/6...a/?p=9889708):
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There is a rapidly growing segment of amateurs who practice “electronically enhanced astronomy”, or EAA. Essentially, EAA puts on your computer screen what your telescope is seeing in real time. Based on your stated goals, I think EAA might appeal to you.
Planetary photography is not a real time observing activity. Only after a lot of processing does the wow! image appear on the screen. With EAA, you and your observing partners can see the wow! shots of deep space objects in real time. It is also a simple matter to save the viewed image for sharing later.
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Also I have read up on the C8 SCT (this review seems to summarise things well
http://scopeviews.co.uk/CelestronC8XLT.htm). Interestingly, plenty of people have said it is a good "jack of all trades" type of telescope. I have also read this one
https://telescopicwatch.com/celestro...-8-sct-review/ but it seems with the issue there was mainly with the AVX mount (which I am not getting).
I have thought about the Newt vs SCT scenario for a while. While I was considering a Newt I realised it really just didn't fit with what I wanted from telescope and the C8 SCT did.