I have been doing visual astronomy off and on for 20 years and decided to get into imaging about 2 years ago. I love looking at clusters and planets through telescope and imaging nebula and galaxies. My first "real" telescope was the Orion SpaceProbe 130EQ which I used for most of 8 years which I loved. I upgraded to the Orion Sirius 8 because of it had great reviews as a great beginning imaging scope which has not disappointed me at all.