Hello everybody, this is my first post here. English is not my native language, so please bear with me!
I'm fond of astronomy related disciplines since I was a little kid (I'm now 51), but my experience with telescopes is very limited: I used a small refractor and a reflector, both when I was very young. Last year, for my birthday, my wife gave me a Konusmotor 130/1000 (500mm with Barlow 2x), which I used until now. These days I made an upgrade because I'd like to make my first step into astrophotography, but I'd also like to keep making observation. So I purchased a used HEQ5 Pro Synscan mount, and I was planning to take a 150/600 f4 newton, but I have some doubts. I saw that a 200/800 f4 is a couple of hudreds € more expensive and since I also would like not to lose too much with magnification (I sometimes have my son, his and my friends, have some fun together), so I'd like to have some insights from people more experienced than me. Sort ok know what they would do if they were in my shoes. When I'm not on vacation, I use the telescope from a terrace of a small building in a polluted (light and dust) city, which is Rome, Italy.
Apart from size aspects, which I have to think about on my own, I've never took a picture from a telescope, so I'm interested in understand what the differences could be using the two tubes. Would I encounter the same difficulties?
Since my limited knowledge I could easily have missed some important informations, in this case feel free to ask.
Thank you in advance