I have an 8" SCT and can see many galaxies, nebulae and clusters with it when we go to our dark spot. You can even see the spot on Jupiter on a really good nigh

I have an 8" SCT and can see many galaxies, nebulae and clusters with it when we go to our dark spot. You can even see the spot on Jupiter on a really good night. They don't look like the hubble photographs of the galaxies, but there's something just breath-taking about seeing it with your own eyes, in real-time. "I don't see anything, just a blurry spot" "That's it! That's the galaxy." "You sure? I think it might just be a smudge on the lense." "No, no. Try moving where you're focusing your vision, around it, instead of looking at it directly. So you're viewing it mostly with your peripheral vision." "Woah."