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Originally Posted by impactcrater11
all good advice here....if you don't know which scope you need for astrophotography , you are not ready for it.
you have an excellent camera , so no problems there.
in today's world a few small photos of the rings of jupiter will leave people wondering why you do it. they are used to fabulous images...
you need dark clear skies to get 'wow' images...
the scope needs an equatorial mount...
it needs to track the object for hours of photos....
the scope needs a BIG aperture and I'm talking 16 inches for the 'wow' factor
the retailers in oz answer questions wonderfully , and they will give you options , and then you still need to understand what your photos will end up being like...
finally, lots of astro photos show things which equire special filters and false colour imaging ....
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Many images on this forum are taken with a 80mm or 100mm telescope and they are 'WOW' . In fact a good starter telescope is the ED80.
Dark skies help but I have gotten images from the suburbs.