how to record and see my telescope view?

[ruthwiz (Ruthwiz)]

I am using nexstart computerized telescope, i need a software to see live view of my telescope and record the video and take photos without using any external hardware. I need a good software to record and take pictures.

[ZeroID (Brent)]

'Without external hardware' ?
At the very least you will need a PC or laptop and a webcam or astrocamera of sorts to capture the image.
Can you be a bit more specific as to what you wish to record as the requirements (and costs) vary depending on whether it is lunar, planetary or DSO.

[julianh72 (Julian)]

You can take basic pictures of the Moon and some of the brighter planets using a handheld digital camera or your smartphone's camera, shooting through the eyepiece. You can get better pictures if you buy a bracket to attach your camera to the eyepiece, or you can buy adapters to attach a DSLR body to the focuser without using an eyepiece. You can also take reasonable wide sky shots using a DSLR with its own lens, and you don't need a telescope at all.

To go beyond that, you NEED to buy a specialised astrophotography camera. Once the bug has bitten, the sky is the limit (literally!) for how much you can spend.

[ruthwiz (Ruthwiz)]

Originally Posted by ZeroID

'Without external hardware' ?
At the very least you will need a PC or laptop and a webcam or astrocamera of sorts to capture the image.
Can you be a bit more specific as to what you wish to record as the requirements (and costs) vary depending on whether it is lunar, planetary or DSO.

I have a laptop and i want a software through which i can c what my telescope is viewing and take the pics and videos of the solar system.

[ruthwiz (Ruthwiz)]

thank you so much Julian but i need software for my laptop to see what my telescope is looking at and record that particular session without any external webcam.

[bojan]

Originally Posted by ruthwiz

thank you so much but i need software for my laptop to see what my telescope is looking at and record that particular session without any external webcam.

Software itself will not help here.
You need the camera first - then you can use software to capture what camera is seeing.

[OzStarGazer]

You could buy a cheap webcam and modify it. There are tutorials online on how to do this.

[Don Pensack]

You have the mistaken, yet common, idea that a computerized scope can download its image straight from the scope. It cannot.
A telescope produces a visual, not a digital, image.
You still need a camera mounted on the scope (but there are many kinds of cameras), and a way to capture the images in the camera, or to download the images to a computer.
The easiest way to see planets and Moon is with a simple video camera attached where the eyepiece would normally go. A cable connecting that to a laptop or tablet would show the images as they come in. This can work really well, as 30 frames per second works well on the Moon and planets.

For anything fainter, longer exposures will be necessary, but the basic idea is the same.