Thanks for the welcome
and advice. I just put in my order for the scope, a moon filter and a collimation tool now just have to wait for them to get more of the 8" back in stock, so should be set up in a few weeks. I plan on many sleepless nights.
In the meantime i'll spend some time on here looking at the pictures, there are some awesome pictures. Originally I was mainly interested in the planets and moon but after seeing some of the deep space stuff, its definetly got me interested.