Many thanks again. My interest is primarily visual astronomy: moon, planets, DSOs, the open bedroom window in the next street (just kidding!), but I also don't want to cut myself off from the possibility of a little imaging. The thing is, if I see something particularly nice, it'd be nice to have a snapshot of it.
Now I'm sure you're all thinking ; the man's a fool; he doesn't know what he's getting into - and of course that's largely true. I
am a happy idiot.
However! I have written two books on digital image processing: you can see one here:
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-D.../dp/0534400116
and it would be nice to leverage that expertise, such as it is, into some elementary snaps of nice stuff seen through a telescope.