Skywatcher Collapsible with GOTO/tracking

[icytailmark]

does anyone know if this telescope is good enough to do astrophotography for planets?

[BlackWidow]

Hi Mark... Yes your will be able to use it to take pictures of Planets only really. You will need to use a WebCam and some free software called Registax. It will allow you to take video of say the moon or Jupiter and then make them into a single shot.. I have done this before with my DOB I had. If your are wanting to take pictures of deep space objects that is difficult to do, if at all with a DOD evenif it has GOTO. This is due to the fact that it is not able to allow for Earths rotation so using a Digital Camera on long exposure simply wont work. I have just upgraded my gear for asto Photo work and it is a Very big learning curve, and a n expensive one.. If you search on Google for taking planet pictures with a DOB... You will find some good info about it..

Great scope if this is going to be your first for visual work..



Hope I have been some help.

Mardy

[mswhin63]

Just did some uing my DOB yesterday, although I have made a EQ Platform to make the images a lot easier to capture. The Tracking version DOB should do the same with consideration to field rotation that is not a problem with EQ.

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?p=637237#post637237