I'm beginning to come around to that way of thinking. As a second scope for looks at home of planets and the odd interesting event the 8" should be plenty. Have just moved into a townhouse and all i can see is about 30 degrees each direction of zenith before running into trees and houses, not to mention the lighting and heat currents coming off everything. Skies are actually reasonable though, mag 4.5 maybe.
The plan was to transport it but the 12" is already kept at a dark sky site. Will put the money i save into petrol to get me to it more regularly.
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