Hi,
Just wondering if anyone could help with the following.
I have been having some fun webcasting the Moon using a Phillips webcam and a 8 inch Celestron telescope. Even with a focal reducer, the field of view is way to small for anything else.
I would like to be able to experiment to see if the webcam can be used for things like encounters between the Moon and planets (maybe up to 5 degrees apart). This will need a completely different lens. I was thinking that maybe a 50mm SLR camera lens would work. I would just need some sort of adaptor that would let me attach the webcam to it (as well as a thread so I could stick it on a camera tripod).
I have a 1 1/4inch eyepiece adapter which the webcam is attached to. My pondering was that perhaps I could find an adapter somewhere that lets you stick a 1 1/4 inch eyepiece on a 35mm format camera lens. That way I could just pop the webcam adapter in it and instantly be ready to webcast.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards,
Paul Floyd.
www.paulfloyd.id.au