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Old 12-07-2015, 09:23 PM
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OzEclipse (Joe Cali)
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John,

As you probably know, your fuji s5500 camera has a fixed lens with a 55mm female screw thread. The eyepiece shown in the link you gave is a Celestron 32mm plossl. It has a thread for 1.25" eyepiece filters.

Do you have that eyepiece? If not and you want to use your camera, you need an eyepiece with a thread and an adaptor with appropriate threads to join the thread from the eyepiece to the 55mm thread your camera to do the afocal method glenn mentioned.

It might be easier to use a digiscoping adaptor.
You can see two different sizes about 2/3 of the way down this page.

http://www.andrewscom.com.au/site-co...-longperng.htm

These devices clamp onto your eyepiece and allow you to position the camera over the eyepiece. Wrap a piece of black cloth or black card around the lens and eyepiece to exclude stray light. Nothing else required.


Joe
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