I often think of amateur astronomers who have won many awards including APODs
and have large libraries of beautiful pictures without using high end scopes and spending megabucks.
In this case Carlos Taylor is using only
a SkyWatcher Quattro-10S (250/1000) Newtonian reflector
which retails for under 1,000 Euros:
https://teleskop-austria.com/SWN2501...nian-reflector
and has a 2" focuser.
he just won another APOD here:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230119.html
and he has an astrobin library of amazing pictures here:
https://www.astrobin.com/users/CAPastrophotography/