[Aeryk01]

Ok... I just got a nice new scope & wanted to see what I could do by just holding my digital camera up to the eyepiece. Not too shabby for a first attempt

btw... for you astronuts out there, it's an Intes MN61 MakNewt scope with a 900mm focal length & 150mm diameter primary mirror. Shot holding the camera up to a TeleVue 32mm Plossl eyepiece.

Thanks,
Eric

[Pook]

Originally Posted by Aeryk01

Ok... I just got a nice new scope & wanted to see what I could do by just holding my digital camera up to the eyepiece. Not too shabby for a first attempt

btw... for you astronuts out there, it's an Intes MN61 MakNewt scope with a 900mm focal length & 150mm diameter primary mirror. Shot holding the camera up to a TeleVue 32mm Plossl eyepiece.

Thanks,
Eric

Well done!! Nice moon pic. Can I borrow it to drop into photos? LOL.. only kidding... but I bet people do you know?

Once you get into astro, you'll be buying equatorial mounts and drive gear next.... beware!

[Gary Bagshawe]

Fantastic shot, I love it. and I want one now!!!

[Pink Fairy]

Originally Posted by Aeryk01

Ok... I just got a nice new scope & wanted to see what I could do by just holding my digital camera up to the eyepiece. Not too shabby for a first attempt

btw... for you astronuts out there, it's an Intes MN61 MakNewt scope with a 900mm focal length & 150mm diameter primary mirror. Shot holding the camera up to a TeleVue 32mm Plossl eyepiece.

Thanks,
Eric

Nice one Eric, always best when there's a good shadow to throw across the craters. I find the moon quite useful as a reference for resolution and equipment performance for digiscoping ... although we use terrestrial spotting scopes for our stuff. What camera were you using for this?
Here's one of mine from 2001 or 2002 (possibly Swarovski AT80HD+ Nikon coolpix 990)



http://www.digiscoped.com/files/lunar2.JPG

[Aeryk01]

I used my Minolta DiMAGE Z-10 point & shoot. btw... I have 5 scopes & 4 are on eq mounts which are motor driven. I'll be doing planet pics soon too...

Thanks for the comments all.

Eric

[IanC_UK]

Very nice

My brother is just starting out on this spent a day in Cambridge with him Saturday looking at something a little bigger than the Meade ETX70AT that he has been playing with.

Hopefully he will be getting shots liek this soon !

[Steep]

The moon is upside down

[IanC_UK]

Originally Posted by Steep

The moon is upside down

Shhhhh dont say that too loud, we will have a full scale panic on our hands !

[silkstone]

Darned Aussie telescopes!

Cracking good shot though - I've never managed to get anything that sharp and detailed with a normal telephoto lens. I'll have to try the Opticron spotter-scope sometime. I wish you could flip between camera and eyepiece like on some of the astronomical scopes.

[Matty]

wow fantastic! reallly impressed with those. very impressed indeed

[Cyd]

Oh man what a shot

[Oz]

Originally Posted by Cyd

Oh man what a shot

Agreed, it's flipping quality. I'm baffled by the camera/scope techno speak - can anyone relay in English for me?

[Aeryk01]

Thanks again all for the wonderful comments.

I'm baffled by the camera/scope techno speak - can anyone relay in English for me?

The telescope is actually a Maksutov-Newtonian design using a corrctor lens at the tube opening (facing the sky) & a concave mirror at the bottom of the tube which reflects the incoming light path up to a small convex mirror mounted onto the corrector lense itself. What this basically does from a photography standpoint is make it a HUGE!!!! telephoto lense.

You can read more info on this particular scope here:http://www.apm-telescopes.de/englisc...intes.htm#MN61

Thanks
Eric