Reddit reviews Inside PixInsight (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series)
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That's the scope I started with :)
The easiest way to get involved (IMHO) is to get a DSLR and a T-mount. This will allow you to attach a canon DSLR to the back of your scope. Now you can easily take pictures of the moon, planets, and brighter objects in the sky.
Deep Sky Stacker is a free image pre-processing program that will help you stack all of your images together with their calibration frames to get ready to do the processing to get the detail out of the image.
As for image processing, Pixinsight is what I use, and it's a hefty pricetag, but it's a one-stop-shop. It does everything you need it to do. I've seen others with exceptional results from using photoshop, but I have no training or expertise in it at all. Here is a fantastic book that explains the intricacies of PI.
For long exposure stuff, you'll need a high quality equatorial mount, and for even longer exposure stuff, you might need a guide camera, but you'd be surprised what a well aligned unguided mount can get you, especially for brighter objects (like M42 here) and shorter exposures. Instead of the 3 minute exposures I took here, you can take 45-second exposures and just collect buckets of them and stack them all together.
The bible that many, including me, swear by: Getting Started: Long Exposure Astrophotography.
If you purchase PixInsight (which you should if you're really serious about getting the most from your data), then buy this book: Inside PixInsight.
Nicely done!
How are you finding Pixinsight? I've heard good things about Warren Keller's book (https://www.amazon.com/Inside-PixInsight-Patrick-Practical-Astronomy/dp/3319256807) and just found this website (http://www.ip4ap.com/)
Looks like there's some astigmatism at the corners of the image though, probably from the focal reducer not creating a flat image.
until recently no pixinsight book existed. however this was published last year and goes into quite a bit of detail on PI: http://www.digitalastrophotography.co.uk/Astrophotography/Home.html
also, warren keller has a book coming out within a month:
https://www.amazon.com/Inside-PixInsight-Patrick-Practical-Astronomy/dp/3319256807