If you guys are serious I will help you pick a scope. 60 years of experience, and have built two telescopes in distant past.
my most expensive setup was a Questar 7 with a cold camera and Pentax ME super 35mm Film camera. before digital
A description of a cold camera, in line between telescope and Camera a tube that you fill with dry ice to hyper the emulsion to Hyper levels of sensitivity. for long guided exposures of Nebulous object. years ago i did Astrophotography . Before Hubble.
about 12.000 dollars invested.
I gave it up after viewing hubble shots. no longer could compete with earthly telescopes.
So now, just visual. To me it just blows me away. thinking about all those Photons traveling at the speed of light, Example........... Andromeda galaxy. 2.5 million light years away. and the light i saw Thursday night was traveling for 2.5 million years at the speed of light 186.000 miles per second.
Here is the hard part to contemplate............. those Photons make a continuous solid stream BETWEEN your eye and Andromeda. NOT PULSED!
http://www.questar-corp.com/questar.htm Could not find price. i think around 15.000 dollars now.
So who's the secret Millionare????
@Frank the Dank . and
@hairyman .