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The Sky-Watcher 254mm Newtonian reflector offers tremendous light gathering capability combined with portability. The SW 254N is capable of discerning remarkably fine detail in solar-system and deep-space objects. Its large 254mm aperture will allow you to capture faint galaxies, nebulae and star clusters they way you want to see them. The 10" SW 254N will hit the sweet spot for many amateur astronomers searching for large aperture, modest cost and GO TO capability.
The additional detail to be seen with the 254mm aperture SW 254N is truly impressive. Its larger light gathering capability pays big dividends in brightness and increased resolution, especially with respect to faint magnitude objects beyond the visual limit of an 8" (203mm) telescope. For instance, the 254mm (10") aperture is within the threshold for observing coveted astronomical gems like the elusive planetary nebula the Crab (M1), a supernova remnant with several subtle, gaseous filamentary structures. M97, an interesting planetary nebula in Ursa Major is definitely more available to a 10" than an 8". In Orion, M43, a small emission nebula located near its famous neighbor M42 can be see best in a 10".
The 254mm aperture will keep observers in the hunt discovering faint comets at magnitudes near the instrument's visual limitations - magnitudes where smaller telescopes are simply blind. Objects seen well in an 8" telescope will look even better in the SW 254N, such as diffuse emission nebulae in the summer sky like the Lagoon (M8), Trifid (M20) and Swan (M17); the stunning globular star clusters M13 and M92 in Constellation Hercules; the awesome winter sky's Great Orion Nebula (M42) in Constellation Orion and the beautiful Rosette Nebula in Constellation Monoceros which takes on the appearance of a blooming, to name a very few, will appear more spectacular, brilliant and wider in extension in a SW 254mm (10").
The Moon almost takes on a feeling of viewing in 3D. Subtle discontinuities, ripples and festoons in Jupiter's bands present themselves in bold relief against surrounding Jovian landscape. Saturn's inner crepe-ring is clearly discernable. Martian polar-regions and surface mottling is presented with clarity impossible to experience with a smaller aperture telescope. Many an amateur astronomer will find the SW 254N EQ5 PRO delivers all the sophisticated performance ever needed for a lifetime of enjoyable astronomical pursuits.