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Originally Posted by pproctor
Hello all.
Just starting in the dangerous world of astro-photography after many many years of photos of land based objects!
The Minister of Finance (who fortunately shares the Astronomy passion), was an amazing woman who presented me with a HEQ5-Pro and a Skywatcher Black Diamond ED80 for a combined Christmas/Birthday present.
Due to the combination of recent weather and travel patterns, there has been a limited number of nights when I have been able to get it all out.
As such, the first reasonable night allowed me to get out and have a crack at a moon shot last Friday, and I managed to squeeze this one before it clouded over just a bit too much.
Camera is an unmodified Canon 40D, taken through the ED80 with a Televue 2" 4x Powermate. That combination has given me a few other questions for another part of the forum, namely couldn't get focus unless I scrapped the Televue T-Ring direct adaptor, and used the right angle.
Let me know what you think  |
Very nice, Paul, for a first shot
Might need a tad sharpening of the focus but otherwise very good.
Your ED scope will need an extension tube to come into focus if you don't use your diagonal, that's why your shots were out of focus when you were just using the T-ring adapter.
Grab yourself a modded Toucam for lunar and planetary shots. They're much better than a DSLR for this type of work. Have a look here...
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=70573