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I still hold to my original plan for getting into astronomy and the levels you progress through.
For the first 5 months I had no tracking. I could image planets and do heaps and heaps of viewing. Along came the 2nd hand dob driver in december 2005 and since then I have hardly seen anything apart from jupiter and saturn.
Tracking is great, but by no means the be all end all. I am really starting to miss viewing Messier objects etc.
So don't rush things, you have all the time in the world to progress slowly.
Even if you have a d1ck smith scope, there is 1 - 2 years worth of stuff to study up in the sky.
The same with eyepieces and the like. You appreciate the better quality eyepieces once you actually have quite a lot of experience in picking out the "bad" things. How many newbies would look thru a $100 eyepiece and a $500 eyepiece and notice a difference???
I spose I am saying, don't rush it.
I still have a 5yr plan to get a celestron 14" on a decent mount. $10,000 - $20,000. I can't afford it now, but it in no ways detracts from the fun i am having now playing with my toys!
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