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Julian,
A warm welcome to IIS
I’ll be the first to ask the obvious question - what part of Astrophotography are you interested in ??
1/ Wide field Astrophotography with just a DSLR, tripod or portable sky tracker ( images across the night sky mainly showing the Milky Way etc … )
2/ Long Exposure Deep Sky Astrophotography with a telescope and mount ( preferably Equatorial Mount or EQ mount ) Images of Deep Sky Objects or DSO’s in detail including Nebula , Galaxies , clusters , comets and so on etc…
3/ Planetary Astrophotography with a telescope and Equatorial Mount ( images of the Moon and Planets
4/ Short Exposure Deep Sky Astrophotography or EAA ( Electonically Assisted Astronomy ) Similar objects to item 2
5/ Both Long Exposure Deep Sky and Planetary Astrophotography ( quite popular )
6/ Solar Astrophotography ( imaging our Sun )
7/ All of the above ( $$$$ )
All the above types of Astrophotography require different types of equipment, skill level , budget and time to produce images.
Also your location plays an important part as well ( obviously the darker the location the better )
Probably item 2 and 3 are the most popular across all the fields of Astrophotography
I’ll leave it there for now
Maybe some more information when you get a chance so myself or other folk can assist you further with the hobby
Cheers for now
Martin
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