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Old 11-09-2014, 11:43 PM
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There is nothing stopping you from imaging with your camera right now.
Slot an eyepiece into your scope, then butt the lens of your camera up to it, and shoot the Moon. Its going to be frustrating as hell at first, but very soon you'll be capturing some awesome shots.
One tip I can give is to focus the telescope, not the camera. While you are focusing you can be giving your scope a bit of a nudge to keep your target in view.
Once you perfected that, then you can move onto the planets.
Set your camera to video mode, butt the lens up to the eyepiece, zoom in as far as you can, then capture short bursts of video. 10 seconds, 20 seconds, so long as the planet stays in the field of view. Then you can process those videos using Registax to produce some pretty good still shots.
If you have a tripod you can capture some stunning wide fields. Simply set your camera to do a 15 second (or longer if possible) exposure, ISO800 or ISO1600, set your inbuilt timer to 2 seconds to avoid shaking the camera, and away you go.
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