These days if I were starting out and had little to no knowledge or idea about the requirements of astrophotography, I'd simply buy a SeeStar or a Dwarf:https://www.seestar.com/and/orhttps://dwarflab.com...smart-telescope Simple to use, they both cost less than a good quality mount...
This is all to demonstrate that what we see with our eyes is not all there is to see and a tool as simple as binoculars can open the sky to them. At this point I might show them the Seestar S50 and explain the concept of astrophotography and how a camera can accumulate light over ...