Imaging vacation (Score 1)

The best way to get a taste for imaging is to take an imaging vacation, go to a place like www.nmskies.com and for a very reasonable price you get to use a $50,000 imaging setup with help from people that do this for a living. You can take your own telescope as well or rent one of theirs for viewing in amazing dark skies. One night of imaging here I got more/better images than in the entire previous year on my own. It makes you lust after nice equipment, but you learn a lot. They also have an option where you can rent time and control a scope remotely if you don't have time for a vacation.