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Hi Robert,
its a nice scope what you are looking at but Tony is right, its better starting visual and definetly better starting with a much smaller focal lenght. For visual the scope is great and should work well for moon and perhaps some planetary shots with a modded webcam. But forget about long exposure.
Your scope has about 2m focal lenght wich is pretty hard to guide. And without guiding there is no exposure longer than 2seconds esp. not with this scope unless you have a very accurate mount (def. not this mount-it cant even be guided) and a very, very accurate set up (have you ever set up an equatorial mount? - its sometimes frustrating and can take forever).
If you really want to start with astro photography you better stretch your budget to allow for a mount like the proven EQ6PRO and a guide scope and a guide cam and a notebook and 12V DC power supply in the field (or a transformer if you have mains) and a bathinov mask to focus and some warm boots/clothes and some clip filters for your 500D and all the adaptors you need to connect everything and means of transporting it and a car big enough to hold it all and a partner who understands that you are away on most moonless cloudfree weekends especially in winter when your camera actually works best...
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