Trev,
Have a look at heavens above. It is a great site for getting details of satellite passes including the ISS, the mighty Hubble and the Chinese space station, the Tiangong. Also Iridium flares - amazing flashes from the Iridium comms satellites as they slowly rotate and reflect sunlight.
Regarding scope fever, I've had it pretty bad over the years. But remember, Galileo did his best work with a 1" and Newton revolutionised the scope world with a reflector about the same size!
Here's the link.
Heavens above.
Cheers,
Richard