bump.
sorry I cannot offer advice as I am a newbie. I am also very interested in this topic as we have a nice new Nikon DSLR.
Some questions I have are:
- what are the minimum specs for a mount for a camera?
- would a simple camera mount, from any camera store do the trick?
- would you need an equatorial mount or could you get by with an alt-azimuth mount and manually track the objects in two axes?
- depending upon the mount, what could you reasonably be expected to take photos of, either tracking manually or just with short exposures?
- would you use a wide angle lens, either 24mm or 28mm? or a telephoto lens, say 200mm or more?
there are lots of photos out there with descriptions of the equipment used (e.g. cameras only) but sometimes I think I might be missing crucial details. Trial and error is fun but some extra pointers from those that have been-there-done-that would be great!
looking forward to the lunar eclipse.
cheers,
DJDD