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Personally, I find that GOTO (where I live) is needed, as apart from the brightest of objects, I cant see anything.. so goto saves me from having to star hop all over the place (where I cant visually see the stars) to find things...
I would go for the ED80 as a start, and over mount it on an EQ6. This will let you move up in time, to using the ED80 as a guide scope beside the 10" newt, giving you a nice field of view, guiding, and enough mount to hold it all..
One thing I was told at the very start of my imaging, is there is no such thing as going overkill on the mount.... the biggest, beefiest mount you can afford is the one you want to buy. This allows you to move up to the 10" newt when you get more confident in your polar alignment skills, and onto even bigger scopes after that (should you want to)
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