Thanks casey, Orion is a very good beginner object, With your ED80 you will need to take longer exposures than me mine where only 10 seconds at ISO 1600 but with you cool mount you should easily snap that in. You will also be able to work with lower ISO too.
One other thing something I learn't while imaging this is that I have 1500mm FL while yours is 600mm and will easily get this in but will look small in the final image. I know that I want to get a lower FL in the future for wider field. Again with your mount you can add to a take away in the future what ever you want, great choice.
Enjoy enjoy and remember it is highly addictive. We have about a week of bad weather coming and I am already getting DT's
