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Hi
Something that is worth considering when buying a telescope is where you will be using it. If you have a good dark location away from city lights get a nice biggest aperture scope you can afford probably an 8" or 10" DOB. If you want to take photos however you will need something on an equatorial mount.
If you live in a light polluted area get something that is portable and easy to set up. I can see more from a dark location with an ETX125 (5") than I can see from my home with a 12" LX200 in a domed observatory.
For photography my son has the ETX and piggybacks his Canon 1000D on it in equatorial mode and has taken some excellent wide field photos with only three months experience.
Web cameras work quite well for planets on most scopes especially with suitable stacking programs. Some of the web cams will work OK on bright objects using 1 or 2 barlows stacked to give higher magnification.
Incidently the FOV of a web cam will be about the same as seen through a 6mm plossl eyepiece on any scope so quite good detailed pics are possible of the moon and Jupiter, Mars when it is close and even Saturn.
Barry
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