After reading loads of reviews and a limited budget i have just bought a Skywatcher Skymax 127 with the intention of spending some quality time with my son watching and photographing the night sky. We are currently trying to learn our stars to be able to get the GOTO aligned and tracking. We have found the Stellarium software useful for this as a) it was free and b) we can take the laptop into the conservatory and line it up with the night sky and start trying to find the corresponding stars.

Whilst doing this we are going to try and mod a philips spc800nc web cam for astrophotography