Staki and Mraki

Hey guys, so we decided to pursue Astrophotography instead, this is why we decided to rise our budget a bit for the first scope. The one we are looking at is the SkyWatcher 150/750 Heritage Virtuoso GTi, after some researching we found that it has the capabilities to take beautiful pictures while remaining portable and within our budget, it uses an app so that we can track objects through our phone! Wanted to know everybody's thoughts on this one, if anyone has used it and has some pointers? We also found a couple of very encouraging videos for this scope, where all the benefits and drawbacks are shown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0YbWyATAsA At 3:50 he shows the pictures they were able to take with this scope, to us this seems awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXW6IVE5DO4 One of the cons mentioned is that the focuser is 1:25' instead of the usual 2', this would mean that we would need an adapter for this, does this mean that if we want to use a DSLR camera, we would need some sort of an adapter as well? Thank you for all the info provided, you guys rock!

Hey guys, Thanks for the great advise! Reading through the replies we can see that it would be best to pick either watching or photographing. I think we will rather explore everything and learn as we go before we jump in the astrophotography world. @Elp @CraigT82 @Tony Acorn thank you for the detailed replies, we will definitely check the links out to learn more, as we are brand new to the game and very exited to learn everything We've seen that some telescopes have a laser pointer for finding objects, this has been quite the puzzle to figure out, how is it used and is it the best for locating objects? And if so, can it be mounted on any telescope or just specific ones? @wookie1965 Thanks, glad to be here!

Hey @Elp around our area, we can barely see the Milky way from our hometown, however we are big on camping and were planning to use the telescope from remote places such as montains and forests where there is little to no light pollution.

Hey guys, my wife and I are interested in exploring the deep dark sky, we are complete newbies to this so any tips/pointers would be appreciated! We are looking to buy the Skywatcher 150/750 Dobsion as our first telescope, we were thinking of getting a 2x barlow lens to go with it. Do you guys think this is a good choice for beginners? We are most interested in observing the deep sky objects and planets, we researched a little bit on the web and saw that people are singing praises for this telescope and it is within our budget! If anybody has any suggestions please let us know! We are also looking into buying a DSLR camera for other reasons and are wondering if it will be able to pick up the images from the telescope? Any tips/info is much appreciated! Oh and greetings from Serbia! We hope to share pics with everybody as soon as we get all the equipment we need Best Regards, Mraki & Staki