Chris-P

thanks Elp, that's really useful and i think i need to do a bit more homework before i make any decisions. My camera has a built in Intervalometer which i'm used to using, to stack images using sequestor and also create night timelapses. And I've got a couple of good lens's for astro, a Rokinon 24mm prime and Canon 10-22mm lens and also used a Vixie Polarie star tracker but this struggles with the larger lens's. I've got quite a bit of experience with wide view star scapes, capturing the Northern Lights and Noctilucent clouds etc but now i'd like to get up and close with the planets and see nebulae and galaxies in detail...without an astro-mod camera i'm not getting the Nebula and Andromeda is still a bit of a smudge for me. But that's great, thanks for your advice which has taken me one more step closer

Hi folks, i'm new to this community, please can i pick your brains?? I love taking pics of the night sky with my DSLR mounted on a tripod and i'm looking to jump in with two feet and purchase a new telescope so i can get better images of the planets and delve in to deep space. I have very limited experience with using a telescope, i've got a old Skywatcher Explorer 200P gathering dust in the garage which i found a bit big and numb. So i'm looking for something with an autoguider and also possibly a dedicated camera so i don't have to astro mod my DSLR. I was thinking of treating myself to something along the lines of a Celestron Advanced VX 9.25" EdgeHD + StarSense Autoguider + a camera (open to suggestions). Looking expensive but i want something i can grow in to. OR.... do i go down the lines of a Smart Telescope as by the time i add on the autoguider and camera to the VX 9.25", I'm getting towards the cost of the forthcoming Celestron Origin or Unistellar eVscope 2. Upside of the latter is that as a newbie think i'd be able to master them quite quick but downside is 1- with the Origin, don't think it has an eyepeice..i want to be able see what i'm looking at with the naked eye and 2- not sure about the quality of image of the eVscope2 compared to something like the VX 9.25". I'm interested in imaging the planets and deep space. What do you think, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...Thanks