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The 8" dob is a great starters scope and will bring you many years of enjoyment if you don't get aperture fever
Pointing at stars themselves usually won't show you too much of interest. Get yourself a planisphere, red light torch, sky atlas of some kind, and hunt down those globular clusters, open clusters, galaxies and nebula.
Also don't forget to get up early to catch Saturn before daylight in the north-east - if you've never seen Saturn before, the view will blow you away!