i would take a walk into bintel melbourne and have a look at a 8" dob.
check it out for weight for carrying outdoors and indoors. $600 should get you a good dob and necessary accessories.
The guys at bintel melbourne are very good and will help a heap. it you do decide to go with a 8" dob from bintel, get them to shoe you how to collimate the scope.
I would not worry about a tripod (ie telescope mount) at this stage.
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