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Brian,
Why don't you have a look at video astronomy. Far easier to get going than conventional imaging if you are after a quick fix to aperature fever. The G-star Ex is very good value and would display objects upto 4 mags better than through the eyepiece and in near real time. You could use this with the light bridge but would be hard without tracking to keep the object centred, so tracking is best but because it only uses 2-3 sec exposures you will not have to worry about polar alignment. You can record your sessions onto video or DVD or capture images onto a laptop via capture software. Check out Steve Massey's home page on video astronomy, there is a link on this site, or go to My astro shop web site, I think there is a link on this site as well, there are a few other video systems around but for the money these represent good value. This may be one other option you could look at with assisting you with your observations.
Matt.
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