Thanks guys for all the advice
feel very welcome around here. I'll keep what I have and work with it. It's just a whole new experience for me and I'm really digging it. I think the more I learn and see up there, the more engrossed in it I become. It can be easy to get carried away with all the gadgets and gizmos and sometimes you just got to step back and go with simplicity.
It's amazing how these photons travelled all that way to get to our eyes. Feeling very connected to the universe. It's a much different feeling to just passively looking at Hubble space photos. I think that's what drew me towards getting that scope was even though I knew I wasn't going to see amazing images(even though they really are quite extraordinary in a different way),it was like I'm participating in something bigger.
I'll save up for that 10inch dobsonian in a few years.