Pretty sure most people will generally recommend a used 150-200p dobsonian, not only because of price, but of a greater light gathering power, but it all depends on use case. What do you want to do with the telescope?
#Orion 09007 SpaceProbe 130ST Equatorial Reflector Telescope (Black)
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That’s the most common suggestion, but dobsonians are notoriously hard for AP, but really good for deep space.
if you really wanna do AP, I’d probably suggest a tracker and a camera, but I feel as if you could probably pull it off with both a phone and a camera on your original pick as well
It might be wise asking some more AP inclined people on this server
You can get used ones for relatively cheap
Or you could build a barn door tracker for even cheaper
Generally the SWSA 2i
The best out of the box one imo
It’s pretty expensive though
I’d honestly say the Orion scope was pretty decent
Plus you can use it as a telescope as well
best bet is to look around to find used telescope that has an eq mount if you going for Astro because you should be able to go bigger and cheaper
But I don’t think it would be too bad to go for the Orion
AP means astrophotography at least I can’t bother typing it
editing really really helps
I’m still learning
Plus getting a bunch of help from people here
People here are really helpful
That was my original image
After stacking a couple
(Plenty of good videos on it)
And that was after editing with a load of help
Nah, you don’t need powerful, you just need time
Stacking takes time
Editing not so much it’s more of learning curve
siril, deepskystacker, pipp photoshop . Really anything
Most of them are free and open source
it’s depends on what you wanna process (planets work better in some apps and deep sky in other)