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Old 19-06-2014, 06:56 AM
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Originally Posted by LightningNZ View Post
Should work just fine. Most microscopes have 25mm or 30mm eyepiece barrels or smaller though while telescopes have 1 1/4" (31.25mm or something silly) barrels. Obviously you'll likely need to increase the exposure length for anything other than the Moon or planets though.
Thanks. Yes, but I think I would use it mainly for the Moon and planets anyway because I don't have tracking.

I was looking at this digital eyepiece and in the US it is pretty cheap:
http://www.celestron.com/browse-shop...roscope-imager
And 2MP is not bad at all.
PS: I recently also purchased a microscope for the cold winter days...

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