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Aeryk01

19-04-2005, 02:26

Pook

19-04-2005, 05:43

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 :D

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

19-04-2005, 09:28

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

Pink Fairy

19-04-2005, 09:49

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 :D

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

19-04-2005, 10:04

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

19-04-2005, 11:06

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

19-04-2005, 12:09

The moon is upside down :)

IanC_UK

19-04-2005, 12:19

The moon is upside down :)

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

silkstone

19-04-2005, 12:20

Darned Aussie telescopes! :D

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

19-04-2005, 17:20

wow fantastic! reallly impressed with those. very impressed indeed

Cyd

19-04-2005, 19:20

Oh man what a shot :D

19-04-2005, 20:44

Oh man what a shot :D

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

Aeryk01

20-04-2005, 01:07

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/englisch/tests/intes.htm#MN61

Thanks
Eric