Thanks Brent. Yes you are quite right, first things first. As I said I would like to concentrate on photography initialy. So I have already started in my newfound hobby 'cause I have the camera.
So obviously unless I want to just do short exposure widefields I'll need a mount,like you say. And then I guess a 'scope. Because I'd prefer something portable because I'm always tripping around visiting folk and such, and something suited to photography I'm picking a refractor would be the go for starters. Now I see looking around the site that an 80mm like yours would do. Would that be correct? But if I'm going to spend large on a mount I'm not sure whether the budget would cover one of those expensive apo. jobs like I've been reading about. Still, mount first eh. At least I can use the camera. And I'm looking forward to some of that stacking carry on. Cheers.