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Silly question, should I be up, and my equipment not be frozen solid in my back room, what combination of scope/lens would be best to capture this (clear skies permitting)?
I can use my Nikon with a 300mm f4.5 lens and a 2 times teleconvertor with a simple tripod from anywhere in my back yard or I could go to the bother of setting up my mount with a scope but the set up wouldn't be the most accurate and I wouldn't have time to get correct alignment (unless I sleep out in the yard with my equipment in sub zero temperatures).
Then I have the issue of a big hole I dug where my mount goes with the intention of putting my pier in but a combination of weather, health and personal problems have pushed that back considerably and I don't like setting my mount up over a hole full of water. There's no way humanly possible for me to get it done within the next week, I have bigger problems.
Is a 600mm focal length suitable to capture a reasonable image with a full frame sensor (I could go back to my old Nikon D80 APS-C camera)?
I also have a combination of same 300mm lens (f4.5) with an old 1.5 times Olympus ED extension lens from an old Olympus IS1000 film camera which apparently won't require the standard 2 stop speed reduction and a suitable adapter to fit to give a focal length of 450mm.
Or an f2.8 80-200 Nikon ED lens with same 2 times teleconvertor. That gives me a faster image. I don't have an adapter to use the old Olympus glass on the 200mm lens.
I'm guessing whichever combination would only give me small dots in the sky and nothing overly good?
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