Hell yes! If you own a 32" anything you'll be a big cheese.

Oh, goody... [frown] Bah humbug. If I ever do have $100,000 to spend
on my hobby, perhaps... I will befriend the kind, be they meek or
equiped with expensive equipment.

Here, drool:

RC Optical Systems
http://www.rcopticalsystems.com/

http://www.rcopticalsystems.com/32inch.html

They have a nice gallery too. I believe I read somewheres the 32" goes
for someodd $99,990.

I ended up buying the 8" Skyquest Dobsonian. With a 5mm and a 40mm
wide view eyepiece pair to complement what I already have. Along with
a 6 x 30 right angle finder scope and a planesphere. All for a modest
$670.

I hope to be wowed after two years of observing with low power
equipment.

University Optics make one sweet Amici prism'd 8x50 viewfinder. It's
field of view is around 8 degrees which is ideal for general locating of
objects and for serious star hopping. The page with the finders is as
follows www.universityoptics.com/acc.htm Price is around 180 USD. Your
other alternative is something like a Telrad, a device that projects a
red dot on to the area of sky being viewed. It's a 'unit' finder and has
no magnification. A lot of amateurs swear by them.

The Orion 6x30 I purchased was $49.95.

Since my current finder has a big fat crosshairs in the view, I fail
to see how a laser dot would help me much. I was wondering if the
finder actually casts the dot on the sky itself, but I figured that
would be impossible to do without working just like a regular laser
pointer, i.e. illegal. The Orion page shows the view looking through
the finder scope, and made no mention of it casting a pointer dot.

Be glad you don't live on the south western side of Austalia. The winter
(right now for us antipodeans) is cloud and more cloud for 13 out of 14
days for a few months. In the past 3 weeks I've had all of 2 nights
observing, 'nuff said!

Here, right now, as we enter August and Mars approaches, we have seven
straight days of clouds and rain forecast.

I am getting irritated...

I get it from my dark site, which is all of about 50 minutes drive from
the city. Perth being a small joint of under 1.4 million people means I
don't have to drive far to get to really dark skies.

I need to find a good dark site near me. Just moved here, I will do so
soon.

Thanks.

- Livingston