The Moon

Gardener

Moon pass as seen from my balcony

Ones65118

Nice, do you have something hooked direct to computer or did you somehow mount a camera to your telescope. I've had limited luck doing this by putting my cameras up to the eyepiece, but need to make a proper mount for stabilization. Thanks

Gardener

Hi Ones,
thanx... There are different ways, how to hook up camera to a scope.
It mostly depends on your particular combination of telescope and camera and the way you want to take the images.

The above Moon video was done by afocal method. That is, that you mount a camera in front of the eyepiece. The setup was the Celestron AstroMaster scope, Canon Ixus camera and this universal mount.

For other images i use "prime focus" method with Canon 450D, where the scope becomes actually the camera lens. You detach the camera lens and use a T-ring and eyepiece adapter, so that you actually stick this whole setup into the scope instead of eyepiece.

Something like this:


Here are some of my home made/taken images:






This one (comet Elenin) was done with a remote online telescope service:

Ones65118

Excellent information and Great pictures. Thank you. I'm going to have to get a t ring plus an adapter and try this with my Canon Rebel T2i