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Hi UK1, Please don't give up this great hobby; we can't afford to lose you.
I have moved a lot over the years, and when I moved somewhere small,
or a long way from the nearest club, I went to the local paper and asked them if they would do a short feature on me and my scope. They came to
my place, took a pic of me with my 10" dob. They asked anyone interested to call me. In nearly all cases I got between 6 and 12 people
call me, some of whom had scopes. Give it a try, local papers are always
looking for local interest features.
Regarding the 12" dob, nothing I can add to the other replies except
to say that my preference is a 10", which I think is the best compromise
betwen aperture and portability.
Personally, I would stick with the set up you already have. There are numerous tutorial videos on the net. I think you might find having to constantly nudge the dob a nuisance, after using your EQ6. The 8" gives
pretty good views, and even if only roughly polar aligned will allow long enough exposures for you to get half decent images of some types of
objects such as globular clusters and some of the brighter nebulae.
The only suitable target for a dob is the moon. The planets are best
imaged by stacking many frames [usually video], and of course with a dob
the planet will move during the filming of the video. Single exposures
of the planets are rarely very good. Even moon images usually need
computer processing to get the best out of them.
I hope this helped
raymo
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