Anyone have experience hooking a digital camera up to a telescope?

Question

My dad has a meade etx 105 ec telescope and I have a Canon PowerShot S3IS. He knows nothing of digital cameras, but does know there is a way to mount cameras to his scope. We want to be able to get my camera attached to his scope to take photos. Any help would be appreciated. thx

Answer 1

With a camera like the S3is, which has a permanently attached lens, you have to do "afocal photography", meaning you have to shoot through an eyepiece. Eyepieces with relatively large eye lenses usually are the easiest to use; others may vignette.

Scopetronix has a wide variety of camera adapters; here's what they recommend for your setup:
http://scopetronix.com/wizard/step4.htm?brand=Canon&model=Powershot+S3+IS&scope=Telescope+that+uses+1.25+inch+eyepieces&

Answer 2

I have a meade Lx200gps and a fuji finepix camera and before I got a ccd imager I use to just hold the camera to the scope eyepiece and take a shot.Works with terrestrial objects and only the moon.If you can do a time exposure with your sure shot , you will need to mate the camera to your scope with an adapter. But if not , you will only be limited to pictures of the moon.

Answer 3

To attach the camera make sure the lens is where an eye would be then mount it on when looking through the camera look through the screen the camera will see through the telescope and the camera can zoom in even more once it is centered all you have to do is press the button and there you have it you got great pic's GREAT question i think i will do this now tell me how you pic's comeout

Answer 4

No, but try hooking one of these up to a telescope!
I built one years ago, they work, but I never had the oppertunity to hooking one up to a telescope!



Is it possible to 'hear' light?


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Yes!

You need one small solar cell, one small battery operated audio amplifier, one input jack for the amplifier and two 6" lengths of low gauge wire (one black one red). Solder Iron and solder.

Solder the the wire to the the + - poles of the solar cell and the other ends of the to the input jack. Plug the input jack into the audio amplifier. Now take the contraption outside and wait for the sunrise. Or if can't wait for the sunrise, turn on a light and see what happens.


It works! Believe it or not Bell invented the process before he invented the Telephone!

Love Bruce Toronto Canada

P.S. Be extremely careful with the soldering Iron, cause man it gets HOT! HOT! HOT! See if you can get an adult to do the soldering for you!

Answer 5

Try joining the digital astro yahoo group. Basically, you need an adapter. Some people make their own but you can also find commercial ones for certain cameras. You can even just hold the camera up to the eyepiece, although that is pretty crude.

Answer 6

there's a rub... the moon is so vivid which you would be limited by technique of decision of the device in user-friendly terms. and in all probability by technique of image high quality. jointly as i might often see incredibly little use for refractors, in this one case a incredibly small refractor will in all probability be better to a great reflector... till you're capturing for seeing (and not diffraction) limited photos... then you particularly nevertheless want a 12" or better contraptions. and that may not very reachable in a refractor.... particularly watching the moon is in all probability superb carried out with a birding scope. they're optically stunning and that they have daylight hours makes use of a real telescope can in user-friendly terms dream approximately.