I was dead set on a DSLR for deep sky shots, but one night in my buddy's driveway in Tucson flipped me
Spent 3 weeks comparing a $900 DSLR to a $320 astro camera, picked the cheap one, and got the Andromeda galaxy in 45 minutes on my first try, so now I'm wondering if anyone else skipped the whole DSLR phase entirely?