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Well, after ringing the bells for Nikon recently, i have to say get a Canon 300 or 350. The reason i say this is that the Canon has a better (Wider) CCD filter bandwidth than the Nikon series. So your images will show reds much better than most DSLR's. Plus they are cheap, and so easily available.
As the LX200R has similar optics to the RCX (I have the 14" RCX), you will be getting some huge FOV's and stars will be pinpoints from edge to edge of the image. You can use a f6.3 reducer, but it will induce some distortion at the edge of view. Once your familiar with the camera and used to handling it, and taking pretty decent shots, the next step is to get it modified, or get a modified DSLR from the start if you could afford it.
Here is where i will blow the Nikon Horn, as once the filter is removed, it really shines, as do the Canons as well. But with the Nikon's you may need to fiddle with the older models (D100, D70, D50 etc) to bypass a sometimes annoying Dark subtraction filtering issue, for some users it donst bother them. The Modified Nikons produce stunning images, look around for some of these. OK, before someone gripes, the Canons also produce stunning images too.
Nikons D200 model does have control on Dark Sub issue, and has 10.2 Mpixels and also produces better images than the Canons up to the 5D, but the D200 costs around $2800 currently, so id leave this one alone for now.
Buy a swag of spare batteries (About 8 bucks each on ebay), a modifed shutter realease cable so your computer can control the shutter release and some software, like Maxim DSLR, or others.
Oh yeah, and get a $200 or $300 100-300mm zoom lens for it for wide field piggyback photos.
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