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You need to seperate your 2 requirements...
1) something simple to take a 5 year old through our solar system
2) something you want to use for AP later on. Once you go down that rabbit hole it's actually quite hard to break down your perfectly collimated and well balanced scope and camera setup that you have struggled to get just so in order to do visual and add a diagonal and eyepiece ( there, I said it...eyepiece...)
Suggest a table top dob with sky charts ($130 ish) and accessory pack to help you both understand how this all hangs together and a secret stash of go-to AP kit you can commandeer for AP( sorry, I meant coach,etc with).
Best book I read when starting out was The Backyard Astronomers guide by Dickenson and Dyer. Hold on to your 3k until you have either read that or ploughed your way through the sage advice you get here. ( small happy moment when I immediately found my copy on my bookshelf.)
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