Thanks to all who replied.

Thanks Thomas. Love your shot. A lovely young lady I would not want to cross. Those eyes could bore holes in wood!

Love those little guys.

Thanks Thomas.
On the one hand I agree about the white space. on the other hand it is part of the narrative; a tiny face in a high steel wall. This crop was made to be wallpaper on my tablet where the white space is filled with icons. The crop is actually a bit of a salvage operation. The original was a very quick grab that was poorly framed but the subject is so compelling that I had to try.
I include the original. If you can make a better crop I'd be delighted. I'm not ready to stop learning yet.

Don

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This was taken while waiting to board a ferry in New Orleans in 2011 so this young lady is in her mid teens by now. I hope she won't mind being the wallpaper on my tablet for a while.

Even on a wet and dreary day you have to look after your friends.

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Thanks for that. I'll try it.

Astronomy, both visual and photographic is all about gathering very dim light. Generally speaking that means bigger is better. That means, in turn, that for photography the Celestron Edge 9.25 would probably work out better for you than a refractor. For visual you might be best off with a Newtonian (primary mirror at the bottom of a tube with a flat secondary at the top of the tube that reflects into an eyepiece mounted on the side) in a Dobsonian mount. Relatively cheap and capable of superb viewing. You cannot do astrophotography with that rig however.
Refractors are good for both visual and photography but are expensive and are limited in aperture, thus slower.
DO NOT buy a cheap refractor!
Ironically, for astrophotography, the most important piece of equipment is not your telescope, nor even your camera but your mount. Bear in mind that your mount has to be a rock steady platform that must follow the motion of the stars to with +/- 1 second of arc and it must do that for hours with a lot of heavy gear on it.
Do a lot of research before you start this. 'Cloudy Nights' is a good place to begin. It is the astro equivalent of Ugly Hedgehog.
Finally, and I'm really not trying to talk you out of it, the learning curve on this is very steep, you will experience frustration. As well much depends on how much you can spend. Astrophotography can be done with a $40 cell phone or it can be done with the Hubble (and now the James Webb). You will probably never image with those but there is much superb equipment out there for amateurs.
All that said however, when you get a good image, it feels pretty good.

Taken Jan. 6 from Animas, New Mexico.
SBIG STL 1100 camera on a 14" Ritchie Chretien scope on an AP 1200 mount.
Clear sky, good transparency, fair seeing.
10 x 10 minutes in LRGB.

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Thankyou Voss, I appreciate your comments. I was waiting for a train to come down the tracks in the foreground and had my shot of it set up and waiting. The train never came (at least not while I was there) but "Fisher" did and I was glad to get this shot.

Lordsburg, New Mexico.

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Sounds like I have some research to do. Thanks all for your advice.

I know the topic of printers has been discussed here often and a search on the topic provides a lot of information but most of it leans to higher end photo printers.
There is room on my desk and my budget for only one printer though, so I would like recommendations on all in one printers that do a decent job on photographs up to 8x10 and cost less than about $200.
Thanks,
Don

I'm grateful for all the good advice. Based on that I have gone ahead and ordered the EF 16-35MM F4L IS.
Thanks to all.

Don

Thanks CHG_CANON. I was hoping you would reply. How will I know if I have one of these newer lenses?