True Marc.....as you can see from my previous post there, Paul, even starting in astropiccies can get the wallet looking a little anemic. As both Marc and I have said, your main thing with piccies is the mount. It not only needs to be accurate and reliable, it needs to be "chunky", otherwise it'll slop about and ruin your day. Now, since you're really only just starting out, but you still want to take piccies at some stage, what would be best for you is to start out by learning about the sky first up. You can do that with a really good pair of bino's but a good dob scope is infinitely more desirable. Both would be ace, though, as the bino's you could use for very wide field viewing and the dob for more normal observing. Start off in this fashion and you can save up to purchase a good setup for piccies at a later stage. Something like a WO 110mm or 132mm scope on an EQ6 or EM200/AP1200/G11 mount. But there you're starting to look at some serious cash. Then you have your camera...you can start with your DSLR but eventually you'll want a CCD camera, and there you can take your pick and name your price
