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Im going to have a play with my camera mounted on the back of my telescope. One thing I've always wondered is how do people get such good clear (and large) pictured of heavenly bodies? I mean I can barely see Andromeda with the 9mm eyepiece fitted to my 10" Meade LX200 so how does the camera capture such good images?

Think I'll go n practice on the moon...
 
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Start with the Moon, and wide field. It's hard enough with just those, before trying to get into the Deep Sky stuff. For Deep Sky, you need long exposures. I managed an image of the Andromeda galaxy, it was something like 30x2minute exposures. Then a lot of processing afterwards to pull the detail of the dustlanes etc from within the image itself. You do need decent clear skies with good transparency for deep sky.
 
chameleon said:
Im going to have a play with my camera mounted on the back of my telescope. One thing I've always wondered is how do people get such good clear (and large) pictured of heavenly bodies? I mean I can barely see Andromeda with the 9mm eyepiece fitted to my 10" Meade LX200 so how does the camera capture such good images?

Think I'll go n practice on the moon...
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The Andromeda galaxy is huge I'm not surprised you can hardly see it.Try a 40mm and you may see some of it. Forget the eyepieces and attach the camera directly to the scope and use a field reducer (6.3 or 3.3) to get the widefield images :)
 
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