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Get yourself some 10x50 binos and learn the sky first. Its amazing what you can see with binos, and its amazing how many newbies dont know the sky. Save your money and buy a better scope, my friend was given that very scope thats up for auction. And belive me its not worth it, its to wobly the focuser is crap, the EP's are crap. If you want something small and easy to use look at the Meade ETX series these are small portable and has built in tours to let you see more of the sky. However these start around 1000$ for a 90mm, for half that you can get a 10" (250mm) dob plus a good skychart. But the 10" will let you see much much more detail an is good for planetary and deepsky. The ETX's are Mak-Cas setups and are great for planetary, and some deep sky. The problem with the Mak-cas is the smaller field of view means you will see a small portion of the deep sky object, and not the whole as with a 10" dob.
Dobs are light buckets mostly for visual use, imaging is possible but limited. Also limited in that you need to know where to point. You can add Digital Setting Circles (push to) which gives you direction to push to the object you want to see. The best here is Argo-Navis, but you can DIY some, and other cheaper ones come up 2nd hand.
Regards
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