Thanks very much for the advice, appreciate it!
A good planetary eyepiece would be great - looking at planets and the moon has become a habit..
I've got TMB Super planetary 6mm and 9mm and got up early the other morning to look at Jupiter for the first time... to me it seems those eye pieces aren't too bad... it was an amazing sight, I really wasn't expecting to see the cloud bands so clearly
Which got me thinking... wow, I wonder how Jupiter and Saturn look through those really expensive Televue eyepieces I see people talking about on astronomy forums! So thanks for the links Suzy will check them out
I've only been to a reasonably dark sky with the scope once, sadly it clouded over within an hour of starting - but I was amazed how much more detail came out .. the jewel box suddenly seemed surrounded by thousands of stars in the wider field eye piece.. I mean I was expecting a dark sky to make a big difference, but not THAT much difference! It was like another sky up there.
Thanks again for the tips!