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Hi all, Recently I bought a celestron nexstar 8se and have had a great time observing planets and deeps sky objects. However I having read online about astrophotography it seems like something i really would like to get into. First of all i want to ask a question that probably seems very stupid to most other astronomers. When viewing deep sky objects any detail or colour is very difficult to pick out and probably non existent, does using a camera to image these objects bring out this colour and detail that I cannot see. Having researched various colour cameras I think the Celestron NexImage Burst Colour Imager is one of my best options, however as you can probably tell I am not the most experienced astronomer at the moment so really don't know if this is a good option or not. Any help on what camera to buy, and any filers etc that would be useful, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, George.

thank you very much for the help guys that was really useful, just shows how naive i was as a beginner astronomer thinking i could see galaxies and nebula perfectly. I think from this information i will do some more research on filters and consider the UHC, OIII and CLS filters. Once again thanks so much i really appreciate the replies.

I have recently bought a Celestron nexstar 8se, so far i have had great fun learning how to use it and viewing certain areas of the sky such as clusters and the moon. However whenever i try to view galaxies or nebula i just cant see any detail or colour what so ever. At this point in time astrophotography is not an option for me due to the cost of getting into it as i have absolutely 0 kit, other than the telescope obviously. I have read online that a focal reducer may help my problem but most of the information around focal reducers seems focused on astrophotography. Is the problem as simple as light pollution or is there an easy fix to this problem. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.