@Miked
Everything's interesting, eh? I guess the best surprise I had was the first time I entered 'M57' into it and watched it automatically slew and stop. I looked in the eyepiece and there it was - amazing! That was also the Ring Nebula as it happens. It was almost as good as first light (moonlight) through the home made Newtonian. I was just astounded by the mirror. Six-point-seven inch diameter, f8, quarter wave accurate, metallic silver coating done the traditional way. I guess people don't bother doing stuff like that nowadays.
I've bought a webcam/adapter to send images straight to a laptop. I managed to set it up in daylight and got great pictures of a synthetic star (pinhole and a torch) a hundred feet away. Not done anything 'proper' yet, but I've experimented with Registax digital image stacker/enhancer. Very impressive.
I'd really like to image the International Space Station using satellite tracker software, but finding the time to get my head around it all is a problem.
JaX