Who takes photo's of the moon and other planetery bodies ?

MikeRC (e2 Member)

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3 Feb 2012 - 2:47 PM

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Like it says in the title...do you take photo's of the moon and other planetery bodies useing a telescope and a DSLR ?

I'm the lucky recipient of a Danubia Delta 30 Astro Telescope and I would really like to have a crack at this.

I know I will need an adaptor and a camera mount which will cost me some £40 but don't want to buy the parts if I can't do it.
....I have enough difficulties taking pictures of birds

Can you show me any examples...taken with this type of kit..... not the Hubble telescope ...and/or offer any advice

thanks....Mike

Big Bri

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3 Feb 2012 - 6:10 PM

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You won't be photographing through the barlow lens with your DSLR I don't think. I have an adapter for my Canons, but they go in the eyepiece socket instead of the barlow lens. Photographing through the barlow is usually done I think with a webcam type camera.

MrGoatsmilk

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3 Feb 2012 - 6:24 PM

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I take some using a Meade 8" Lx90 gps and attach the camera via a t mount adapter and sometimes an eyepiece between the camera and scope, the Moon is very easy as it's bright and your able to use a fast shutter speed to take the shot.

With planets you will need tracking as the exposure times are longer and you need to take lots of shots and stack them together. Same goes for deep sky objects. Tracking is also needed when tracking an area of sky with the camera piggy back mounted. I recently had a dabble with Jupiter (recent upload) but only used 69 shots and need a lot more along with darks and flats for anything decent.

I then use registax to align and mount the files afterwards, there is also software available to capture loads of frames from your Dslr for you to stack and process.

Bottom line without tracking and a T mount the Moon is very easy to take shots of.

There is some really good info on Stargazers lounge forums


HTH

Stu

P.S If you have a smart phone then download Google sky map application along with Heavens Above

Big Bri

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4 Feb 2012 - 10:00 AM

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Mike, as the path an object moves across the sky is an arc, taking a long exposure of something would require the telescope not only to follow the object, but also rotate. So, as long as you can roughly track something, you take lots of shorter exposures, then use software to align and stack them. This can bring out more detail and reduce noise.

NeilS (e2 Member)

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4 Feb 2012 - 4:02 PM

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Freckles on the old currant bun



Shot on normal camera gear but with an astronomical solar filter in live view with manual focus

Don't try taking photos of the sun without the appropriate filter