Hi everyone my name is Matt and I am new to this forum. Have been using it for a short while to gather information. Have been into astronomy for many years. Not much in the practical aspect but love to read anything about it including many books and just about all magazines as well as this site. My wife pushed me into joining a club so I joined up with the SAS in QLD. Great friendly people who made me feel welcome. Went to this years Astrofest and was amazed to see such a variety of things. My question is we have a 8inch newt on a ge mount that a salesman sold
me about 6 years ago and the views through it have been alright. I was always having trouble using it to pan the sky and only reciently found out It was more designed for photograpy. Wish I had been steered towards a Dob anyway a friend of mine this year moved to the US and I bought of him an ETX125 at a steal. We take it camping and love the little thing but now want to move into a really serious scope. Only into visual at moment but after going to astrofest would like to have ago at imaging down the track so was looking at the lx200R 12 inch. Size does not concern me but my question is would this be a good choice for long term as I Don't want to have to sell and upgrade in year or so. And would this give me alo better visual pleasure in our outer suburban area for my family and friends than the 8inch. Your feed back would be great. Tks
Matt