I'd recommend talking to people on an astronomy forum, such as https://stargazerslounge.com/ or https://www.cloudynights.com/, lots of knowledgeable and helpful people on there.

To give you some idea of what is possible, here's a few images I took the other night with less than $1000 of equipment.

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/332758-a-quick-tour-of-or...