astrophotography

[Craig.]

Okie dokie by now you all know i am into photography and also star gazing with my telescope. I am going to be buying the mount and adaptor for my 300D tomorrow. But what i want to know is, should i also buy an adaptor for my eye pieces? everything i have read says that it isnt needed but will add to the zoom effects, i look at it this way. Being in the city the chance to see anything other than the moon is almost impossible as i have discovered, so is it really worth it to bring out the extra pot holes in the moon or not worth it?
Thanks for any help

[Galactic_eyes]

Craig, what kind of telescope do you have? As far as the adapter, I'd say yes buy it. Not only do you have the moon to photograph but you have the planets as well. To get the planets in good detail you'll need the focal length of an eyepiece.
Living in the city should not stop you from seeing plenty of deep sky objects(visually). Planetary nebulae are not effect by mercury vapor lights that most cities give off. Get a OIII filter to help darken the back ground. Some globular clusters you should be able to see and some galaxies.
Hey, we are neighbors. I live in Georgia.

Check out my web page. I need to update it.
This pic of Mars was taken with a Casio digital camera.

[alrot]

What about right asention motor,to compess the earth rotation movement ,long exposures get better quality and color in astophotography to get ex:orion nebula ,m31,hercules globular cluster,you may need 20,30 second of direct exposure,tracking in a perfect sincronisation with the target, I used to do this thing with classic film type (100 asa)its a hard job but when you obtain from a 20 shot you got one got, believe me its great,I don't know now how well performance about digital pictures(CCD) but in my times i used to enjoy this things

[Galactic_eyes]

Yea, I know what you are talking about Alrot. When using film I've spent an hour exposing one shot. It's a feeling of great accomplishment when you have a perfect photo knowing you worked for it painstakingly making guiding corrections and so forth.
With CCD cameras what took hours on film now only takes seconds.
But, given his location he might be better off with his digital camera. But at a dark site film all the way.

[Craig.]

Hi guys.
Birmingham UK:) its very difficult to see any stars and believe me i have tried.  And the telescope is just one of the cheaper models, a tasco whatever. There was no point in buying an expensive one as i never get a chance to go anywhere to put it to great use.

[Galactic_eyes]

Craig, what kind of mount is your telescope on? Or, does your scope have a RA motor. If your scope has the Altz mount then adding a eyepice between your scope and camera will be useless. It would impossible to take any good photos running at that high of a magnification without a drive. If you have German equitorial mount you can buy a universal drive.
Birmingham UK, I thought you lived in Birmingham Ala.

[Galactic_eyes]

[quote]Hi guys.
Birmingham UK:) its very difficult to see any stars and believe me i have tried.

[Rifleman]

Here is one for you lot of Stargazers......its the project I found when I was back home in Sept, when I checked out my fathers workshop......although crude, it (the equatorial mount) works for following distant objects manually, and while not set up for photography, I'm sure a mod for that could be worked,  given the fact that the jig has been crafted up to the point that it now stands ..............

[Galactic_eyes]

Hey, thats a pretty neat looking gizmo. Looks like a lot of time was spent in building it.

[Mr. Bones]

damn, too bad i didn't see this thread earlier. today i saw a friend who just came back from France. there he rented a telescope in the mountains at 3000 meters together with some other amateur astronomics. they do this every year. they watch the stars as well as other planets and make photos of it. he really knows what he's doing as he invented some way to get less noise in his photos. he even tries to make his own lenses! good chap...when i see him again, i'll ask him some stuff you asked here.