Hi everyone,

Thanks for accepting me into your forum.

My daughter is turning 13 in a few months and has expressed how much she would love some astronomy presents. I'd love to buy her a telescope etc so that she can properly explore the sky, and ideally take some photos if we can link it up with our Nikon D90 camera.
As I'm sure you can tell I'm a complete newbie when it comes to all things 'deep sky' and I don't want to just throw money away and give her a ****ty telescope.

I guess my first question is what should I be buying her? Is a telescope enough, or is there any other equipment she will need? And my next question would be what type of telescope? My budget isn't huge ~100/200 but I don't want to buy her something which she will grow out of very quickly so I can spend more if I need to.

Thanks in advance for any responses.

Persephone