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Originally Posted by rogerg
Welcome, from a fellow Perth resident.
First thing I'd recommend is finding a way to mount your camera on the back of the telescope, such that you take wide field photo's of the sky using the camera with it's normal lens, but mounted on the telescope so that it tracks with the sky.
This will be much more rewarding and less frustrating than any "through the telescope" type photograph that will require more adaptors and the rest.
Many of those newtonians come with a standard camera tripod mount thread bolt on the top of their rings that hold the tube. You might have that. If you do, then buying a simple ball joint tripod head, from somewhere like Camera House, will allow you to mount your camera on the back of the telescope pointing in any direction. This makes for easy framing etc.
Then with the camera on the back of the scope, you can guide through the scope.
Not knowing what level you're at, if this is all way too obvious and below you, sorry... it's the first place to start... if so, then it'd be worth going in to what adaptors are required to put the camera looking through the telescope. If on the other hand it all sounds way too confusing, I'd be happy to help you out with it and how you how it's done at an ASWA event.
The 350D is very capable for astro photography, you should get nice shots quite easily at 30 sec to 1 min exposures, as explained above.
Roger. |
Thanks Roger,Any help is greatly appreciated here. I'll be more than interested in coming along to one of these events in Perth and getting a hands on explanation. Although if you can explain it to me on this forum the quicker I can get into it. I'd like more of an explanation on how to mount in on the back of the Newtonian. That sounds very interesting and perhaps preferable with my camera lenses i already have.When is the next ASWA event?