Is it pointless to buy a telescope

I bought an 8in schmidt cassegrain telescope earlier this year and I started out viewing the moon and planets and eventually bought a Meade DSI ccd imager and took my gear out to a dark sky location and was able to get an image of M104, but now that I've had the scope for a while I keep telling myself that its just pointless. I mean, there is nothing new to discover. With hundreds of millions of dollars of equipment watching the sky at professional observatories, buying a telescope is like buying a book you've already read before. I mean the first time I saw Saturn for myself was kind of exciting, but economically, that's not much bang for a $900 scope. Nothing I could ever image or study hasn't been imaged or studied before. So sometimes I just feel like amateur astronomy in general is pointless.

Ever though of doing collaborative research with professionals? Amateurs have the unique ability to devote time to a project that most professions can only dream of. And they can be mobile (ever try moving a 2 meter telescope around?).

You can work on -
Variable Stars - http://www.aavso.org/
Asteroid occultations - http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/i…
Lunar Impacts - http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/sci…
Exoplanets - http://astronomyonline.org/Exoplanets/Am…
Meteor shower counting - http://www.amsmeteors.org/

And so much more -
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/resources…
http://www.shareastronomy.com/blog_posts…
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arx…

And here's a cool little book that has all sorts of things you can do -
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arx…

If you were expecting something like Mount Palomar or Hubble images, yes it is pointless. You need to develop the patience and the skills of taking long time exposures and digitally processing those images.. THAT can become an obsessive hobby. If you don't want your scope anymore and are willing to pay shipping costs to me, I'll happily take your 'scope off your hands. The eyepieces of my 4.5 inch Newtonian were stolen or thrown into the trash almost a year ago, because some one thought they were junk and didn't understand that something that was with a telescope in a telescope box might be important.

Response to additional details: Take a look at the images in the Gallery at the end of any analog issue of Astronomy magazine. People spend hours taking and processing those images. They get prizes for those images. The sky is NOT static OR redundant. Please e-mail me so I can give you my shipping address. A closed mind IS redundant.