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Hi John
Like anything new, astro photography can appear a hard apprenticeship until you become familiar with the procedures and steps for setting up the ‘scope and camera, adjusting the various controls, acquiring the target, framing, focusing, exposing, etc.
My recommendation would be to start off with prime focus work first, on bright targets such as the Moon and Jupiter, as they are relatively easy to locate and frame, as well as being bright enough to focus on.
This will get you used to how the system behaves and what operations are required to set up, find, frame and focus. There is nothing like a few successful images of the Moon, or even a small Jupiter to give you a sense of accomplishment and to inspire you to continue.
After you feel comfortable with the prime focus stuff, you can move onto afocal photography (camera attached to your eyepiece) which I suspect will be frustrating to start with, as the FOV is much smaller making it difficult to find objects, and the object is dimmer making it more challenging to frame and focus the target.
Cheers
Dennis
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