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OP,
Keep a decent telescope for astronomy at night and use binocs by day, for two reasons:
1. Scopes are optimised for night time use in low light. By day with much more light you quite simply do not need the extra aperture - a good 40-50mm doublet is quite capable of giving sharp images at 50X - far higher power than you will ever use handheld or in a spotting scope.
2. Portability. You'll soon tire of lugging the extra weight and wish you had binocs instead.
It's much the same as the old DSLR vs compact camera dilemma - there's really no point using a DSLR if all you photos are only ever printed at A4 or smaller, displayed on computers or big screens.
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