Mystiqz

1 hour ago, discardedastro said:

The most important thing to answer this question is what do you want to take photos of?

Deep space objects will require tracking, and moderate FLs, and will normally involve long exposures. Planetary requires plenty of aperture and long focal lengths. These are frequently incompatible so you're looking at different scopes for each in all likelihood!

You can do a lot of AP without a telescope at all, just a tracking platform for your existing camera and lenses (the R5 isn't ideal for AP compared to the R6 owing to smaller pixel size, but is still a superb camera for it). This can be ideal for wide field.

If you're not sure then I'd start with widefield as you can do this quite affordably and see if you like the hobby while buying minimal specialist kit - you might end up with a decent fast lens, a platform, dew heater and so on. What's your background with observing?

sorry but what do you mean by FL?

thank you all for the input.

i'm most certain that i won't be doing deep space objects so i'll definitely try for a tracking platform and just my camera and see. I already have a lot of canon lenses so I'll try those out and see how I want to proceed further with the hobby.

Hi all,

I am new to this hobby and was wondering If anybody could recommend me a few telescopes for astrophotography?  I would greatly appreciate it. I am looking for one that is compatible with canon R5, cost <$5K, and will not be doing long hour exposures (but having the feature/ability to do so would be a nice perk).  Thanks in advance.