I dunno- maybe just a female with individual tastes! I like astronomy quite a bit, but I also like flowers and chocolates just as much as the next gal... Anyway, yes, the telescope has a motor- even though it doesn't seem like it, the earth is moving really fast and any exposure longer than 30 seconds will blur (for shots of the sun or moon, a short exposure is OK and no motor is needed). I usually do exposures that are several minutes to a few hours- The longer exposures are neat because they are long enough to pick up all the celestial colors that you can't see with your naked eyes. When the prints come out, they are tinted in all sorts of shades of pink, yellow, blue, and purple, and the stars are as bright as the sun. That's the part I like best.
-Phan