Hi Romina,
to IIS,
The two scopes you mention are just visual instruments, particularly with the mounts they come with. You would find trying to do any kind of photography with either one most frustrating. Firstly, these mounts are just not strong enough to take the added weight of a camera, & the clock drive that are made for these mounts both neither strong enough nor accurate enough for what you want.
For the $400 budget your links suggest, and just expansive wide field shots are not what you want, there is a clever alternative that will allow you to both learn many of the image processing techniques that more involved photography requires, you'll also be able to save more money whilst you cut your teeth with of all things a webcam & your dob. A webcam is a very good and inexpensive way to get started, & even get exceptional results.
Though limited to the Moon & planets, there are two ways that a webcam can be used: the easiest is just to take a single frame picture - good, but the image quality can be very hit & miss due to the influence of thermal currents in the atmosphere. The second is making a film clip of the target. This is actually nothing more than a long series of single shots, but then you use software to stack these individual frames to produce a very high quality final image, just as is done with using more elaborate gear. Exactly the same. Tracking with a dob isn't necessary as the software is powerful enough to align the individual frames!
There are many lunar & planetary imagers here in IIS that use this technique with their dobs to produce exquisite images. It isn't a Mickey Mouse technique. It works, & what you learn with this form, as you save your $, will help you immeasurably should you want to go down the deep sky route.
There are several articles in the Projects & Articles heading that deal with webcam photography. I suggest you go through these if only to familiarise yourself with the technique, & see that it is a very productive starting point, & you won't need to burn a whole lot of cash on telescopes that aren't upto the task.
I've made my own little webcam mod for my dob too following the instructions in one of these articles. It works. The webcam can also be used as a live video feed to a screen to show a large audience.
If you rather not make the changes to a webcam yourself, there are some for sale in the classifieds.
Webcams can also be used for DSOs, but this does require better quality scopes & mounts than those noted in your links.
Taking good deep sky images is not a cheap exercise. But there are some excellent alternatives that can be starting steps, or even prove sufficient for your needs.
Mental.
, so hopefully you see this:
. This will prove most invaluable as you'll be able to avoid some costly errors.
