Hi Christine,
I have recently spent $1349 on an 8" Black Diamond reflector on an HEQ5 from Andrews comms and with a DSLR T ring to attach my 1000D to the focuser. Without guiding and 30 second shots, I have been able to take these pictures of
M8,
M20 and
M22 which can show you what this scope and mount can do.
Well worth the money and even though I am only just starting out down the Astro Photo path, these took only 1 hour for me to get on just the second night I had the scope. The only thing that may be limiting is its size, a pic can be found
here showing me standing next to it.
See what you think.
Cheers
Chris