Well the best advice is do it as soon as you can.
Any binos are real fun...you just cant wander out during add breaks however you need to let your eyes dark adapt 30 minutes in the dark before you really see things...as Marc suggests is the way to go first.
You can take photos on a static tripod just make short exposures and stack them in a free program called Deep Sky Stacker...it enables you to load any number of short captures and stack them to get one image equivalent in exposure to the total of the shots..ie. 10 shots at 10 seconds give you a 100 second exposure.... that program is great if you wanted to do some widefield milky way stuff which is just so much fun.
And if you want to do Moon stuff get a program called Registax...again you take a few shots and load then in the program..dead easy..and you get jaw droping clear Moon shots that you wont believe...even single shots of the Moon are neat...lots of fun.
alex
Good luck.
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