TazG

Right, I've seen this book recommended on here many times, I'm going to go pick it up.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UNREAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I found this website by browsing a facebook astronomy group and finding a discussion about someones first astrophotography telescope, and just had to register and tell you how FREAKING AWESOME those pictures are!! AMAZING So I want to create astrophotos and also look through with my eye, can I do both reasonably well with this telescope? I mainly want to look at deep sky objects like Andromeda, the crab nebula and other unknown wonders out there... But I also want to look at close stuff, like Saturn, Pluto, and the sun. Haha got you!!! JK about the sun part.. my vision is bad enough, LoL:!!!! Yeah so I want your exact model.. because those pictures are so good I want to make some of the same quality, but I don't want to go broke either. I found a BKP 130 DS online for around $350, is that a good price? Or should I get another telescope? REPLY ASAP