Hi,

I'm thinking of getting a Skywatcher Explorer 130PM around christmas as my first ever scope and since it has tracking I will probably try my hand at astro photography aswell. I have been looking at the "fuji finepix s3500 slr" which seems pretty good except no manual shutter setting. Still i've seen good astro pictures taken with this and it's cheap most of all...

Anyway would anyone like to comment on this beginner setup? perhaps someone has had experience with the s3500 with this or another telescope. Would the fact that the camera is an slr make it easy to use on the scope directly to the eyepiece with an adapater as opposed to just putting the lens against the eyepiece? Any information would be appreciated plus possible alternatives.

Thanks,
Mike