Thanks


If you're interested in astrophotography, you are likely to need a good photographic mount in addition to a telescope or lens (in fact, most astrophotographers feel that the mount is actually more important than the lens/telescope, and it is not unusual for them to spend 2x as much on the mount as on the optics).


You might consider a telescope instead of a camera lens. An 8" SCT with a nice mount costs far less than a canon 800mm f/5.6 L but gathers about 2 times as much light (so exposures take half as long). But then, I'm not sure where one can rent a telescope.


I think it is great that you have dark sky parks in Scotland. We don't really have anything like that in the US. I drove 2 hours each way to my dark site