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Hi Steve and congratulations on your new scope.
As Brent has said, stars will always appear as pinpricks of light, the most you will see is variations in colour or double/triple stars.
A 200mm aperture (or 8") is a great size to start observing DSO's. We are in my opinion heading into one of the best times of year for DSO with Orion high in the sky, Eta Carina, the LMC, Tarantula neb, 47Tuc, the SMC all visible and with the Galaxies around Leo and Virgo coming up later in the night.
Malcolm
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