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Anonymous
First, don't replace the 127 with an ETX-80, neither of them are worth a shit. There is no point in moving to a smaller diameter scope, even if the ETX-80 has a shorter focal length.
What do you want to be able to see? If you want to see anything other than the moon, you pretty much need at a minimum a 6" diameter scope. Don't get sucked in to all the remote-controlled, auto-finding bullshit. Just a good equatorial mount is fine. Celestron and Meade both make very good scopes and also both make some pretty shitty low-end ones (basically anything less than 4" and/or sold at Ritz camera).
First decide exactly what you want to do with the telescope, then figure out what is the most you can afford. From there it should be pretty easy to pick a model.
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