Good Morning All,
New member here, although i have had a curiosity with astronomy all my life ive never got round to doing anything about it, but now finally at 48 ive decided to bite the bullet and have a go. I've watched countless youtubes and read many articles and now a bit more comfortable with the terminology and different types of kit out there BUT and its a big BUT, I cant work out where to spend my first money, I want to be able to view AND take astrophotography, I have 2 or 3 Canon DSLRs to use which i have made an initial attempt to use on its own and post process through DSS and GIMP purely to understand the process with pleasing result visually although technically shocking im sure 🙂 .
So to the point, I'm stuck between Newtonian, Astrograph or otherwise, Cassegrain style & APO refractor and have added each to my shopping cart on different days, I appreciate they all have their merits so is it wrong to be looking at one scope to do it all or should I from day one be thinking two set ups ? one for Photography and one for viewing ? Id like some idea of what to expect to see when looking through each style and what to expect with camera attached, and where to start.
Kit I Cuurently have at my disposal: -
Canon 30D 500D 1300D
50mm Prime Lens
18-55 Kit Lens
35-80 Kit Lens
100-300 Zoom
Decent Camera Tripod with Ball head.
Intervelometer (Spelling)
Donated EQ1 Mount with Tripod
Red Dot finder
Any Help appreciated
Andy H