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Originally Posted by niko
Observing is sooo different to astrophotography. Don't confuse the photos you see on here (or anywhere) with what you will see through the eyepiece. Even my most basic of photos is at least a 5minute exposure (in the case of deep space objects) and your eye just can't take in that much light to give those sort of views through an eyepiece.
niko
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I think this is a very important point. Remember that you will see deep sky objects in shades of grey as your eyes will use night vision for them with een a large telescope and night vision does not encode colour. You will see colour in stars, planets and some planetary nebula and that's about it. Nonetheless, you will see heaps of detail on planets and DSOs with an 8" dob. Also realise that planets will not look huge, but you will see plenty of detail on Jupiter, some on Mars, you will get good views of Saturn's rings etc. but they won't fill your eyepiece as you will be limited to 300x mag whatever scope you get due to seeing limitations. Galaxies will certainly be viewable, but be aware they are mostly small and faint with a few dazzling exceptions.