how do you take photographs of planets and other space objects with telescope?

Question

please if you have ever taken send me some.

Answer 1

Sir:

There are adapters you can purchase to fit a digital camera to your telescope. Often these adapters have a split view so one view is for the camera and one view is for your eye.

Select your target, focus, and set tracking for the object so that the telescope tracks the object as the Earth rotates. Then with a very long exposure selected, take the picture.
There is very little light coming in to the camera lens, so the exposure will take a long time. Often it helps to take two or three shots of the same scene using different exposures to try and get the perfect shot, or optimize your chances of getting a good one.

Plan on spending some money to do this. It is not cheap.

It would be useless to tell you all of the parts I have and use. All parts are more or less specific to the type of telescope and type of camera you have. Also, the subject matter that you are making photos of has a lot to do with the necessary materials and accessories.

I recommend that you contact some Astronomy club near you and join up with them in order to follow this new branch of the hobby.

Answer 2

Astrophotography is the most expensive area of the hobby.
One friend of mine spent over $7000 on a CCD camera for his telescope which is a Meade RCX400 20" and it cost $50,000. His photos appear in all the magazines and on the Meade website.

First you need a quality telescope, with an aperture of at least 8" and best results start at 12" and more. I suggest the Meade RCX400 series. Also this scope has Go-to and automatic tracking for time exposure to create the WOW pictures. Snap shots can't do it. You have to do time exposure to get enough light to see most objects in deep space well.

On the cheap you need a decent CCD camera made for telescopes, the adapters, and feed it to a laptop with PhotoShop to compile the photos and compose the pictures.
It is not uncommon to take 10-30, 5 minute shots and combine them with the software for really good pictures.

Planets are easy and do not require long time exposure.
The galaxies and nebula are more of a challenge.
Good luck.

Answer 3

This is called astrophotography. Generally speaking, you need a good telescope on a sturdy mount, The telesope, for the most part, needs to have the ability to track objects, which means the mount must be an equatorial mount (typically a german equatorial mount) or a computerized fork mount. If it's the latter you will need a wedge an a field de-rotator.

You will need a camera. You can use a 35mm camera that has a detachable lens or a CCD camera. The CCD camera may be a regular digital camera that you can also use for astrophotography or a camera designed especially for astrophotography. You will need adapters to mount most cameras to the telescope.

You can learn more about astrophotography by doing a websearch for it.

Answer 4

Get a digital camera with an adapter to fit your eyepiece, and make sure that you have a motorized mount to track the object as it goes across the sky. Let the camera do the work, and be patient. Now, you can photograph objects using reflector and refractor scopes, but your best bet is to use a Maksutov-Cassegrain or a Schmidt-Cassegrain scope [these are the short fat ones with long focal lengths].

Good luck. Don't get discouraged - it takes practice.

Answer 5

You need a clock drive and a camera set at prime focus or one mounted over a lens with a very wide angle view.

Answer 6

it would be pretty hard to take pictures of space through just the eyepiece of the telescope. you need a special telescope that lets you take pictures of space.

Answer 7

send me your email address, and I will show you what Saturn looks like through a Meade LX200GPS 8", with the picture I took with the Meade LPI.

Answer 8

what i do is attach my laptop to the computer to take pictures