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From your original post, it sounds like you are considering the Light Bridges?
I just got a 12" LB (lucky me!), and I must say its a big scope (even colapsed its big). Its virtually at the limit of what you can manage to move around and put away (at least for me, and I am in my mid 30s and still fit). I would suggest only go for the 16" if you have a. The Space, b. The Strength. c. Somewhere to keep it permanently.
As for seeing, I can't say in comparison to a 16" as I don't have one. But I can say I can now see faint fuzzies from my back yard (something my C8 never could do), and I aren't dissapointed or wishing I got the bigger one. I'm generally wishing all this cloud would just bugger off....(and the mossies)
The 12" is also small enough to work as your only scope (by the sounds of it the 16" isn't). So keep your $ get the 12, and spend a little of the difference on an ArgoNavis would be my suggestion.
M
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