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Hi Eyes
There are a few issues in your question and I will answer the easiest first. The scope can be used for astrophotography but as it is mounted on an alt-az mount you will be limited to very short exposures. It is possible to mount it on a wedge and polar align it, but I wouldn't bother unless you are serious about entering the dark money pit that is astrophotography.
The other question is what can you expect to see. Stars will always be points, if they are not they are out of focus! They are simply so far away thats all you will ever see of them, what you can see with a scope of this size will also depend heavily on how much light pollutioon you have to deal with. If by countru as your location you mean you are in the country, then you are in luck. Hundreds of glubular clusters, open clusters, galaxies and planetray nebulae are within reach. themain planets will all be visible as discs, eg Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Does your scope have Go To and have you figured out how to align it yet? From memory I think they use a number of stars so you may have to learn positions of some brighter stars to assist with alignment.
Malcolm
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