Save your money and get a proper CCD Imager.
if your starting out, i recomend the Starlight series.
I had (For many years) the HX-516, and it was and still is a great camera.
Used on the 10" LX200, it got me detail and magnitude easily without much if any software enhancments.
A DSLR is going to be too much fidling with. You have to do heaps of dark frames, longer exposures and vignetting effects.
Once you have some experience, you can move to either a DSLR or a REAL CCD camera with all its bells and wistles.
I currently own and use a canon 20D plus a Starlight SXV-H9. But i prefer to use the SXV-H9 on faint galaxies and nebulae, and the 20D on brighter and wider fields. On sensitivity the H9 wins hands down, but the 20D wins on field of view.
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