TazG

all ways a good place to start

http://www.firstlightoptics.com/books/making-every-photon-count-steve-richards.html

Indeed, though TazG appears to be in Nova Scotia so I didn't mention it!

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

Just a few of the goodies ive had from the 130pds over the past few months:

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