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It won't be much good for astrophotography, except for shots of the moon.
When you get it, you have to check collimation - at high power throw a star image out of alignment and look at the bulls-eye pattern. If you have a nice bulls-eye pattern, all is well. If not you have to muck around with the three screws at the back of the main mirror and adjust till you get it right. Then you will have nice images.
When you get the telescope, you'll have to align the finder scope with the main tube by aiming at a star or distant street light. The one thing the manual doesn't usually tell you is that, after aligning, when aiming your straight through finder at a star in the sky, you are better off using both eyes open. I struggled for years using one eye, as I would when aiming a rifle, then read that handy tip and was amazed at how much easier it was with two eyes open.
Regards,
Renato
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