Astrophotography with Meade ETX125EC Telescope

9 years 7 months ago #399669 by The Italian Guy
I have the chance of picking up this telescope for $375 used from a local seller.  I'm wondering what all would I need to make my Nikon D600 work with this telescope for astrophotography?  


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9 years 7 months ago #399674 by effron
Here's a good research site. There are lots of things you can do....Cha ching!!!
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Why so serious?
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9 years 7 months ago #399699 by The Italian Guy

effron wrote: Here's a good research site. There are lots of things you can do....Cha ching!!!
;)


I'm sorry, I don't follow you?  


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9 years 7 months ago #399701 by Roblane


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9 years 7 months ago #399719 by Foggy
Will a setup like that get you close to any of the outer planets with rings?


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9 years 7 months ago #399807 by One Wish

Foggy wrote: Will a setup like that get you close to any of the outer planets with rings?



Most likely depends on where you are located and how much light pollution you have


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9 years 7 months ago #399917 by Joves

Foggy wrote: Will a setup like that get you close to any of the outer planets with rings?


That is determined by the diameter of the primary optic, and the focal length. I have an 8" f/6 Newtonian telescope, and at a 1220mm focal length at prime focus I get a magnification of 25x. I cannot remember what the EXT scopes were. They are also Cassegrain/Catoptrics which have a longer focal lengths even though they are shorter. They make a focal compressor/field flattener to be able to shoot wider, it cuts them down to f/6.
Now of you shoot Afocally, or through the eyepiece then it is at whatever the eyepiece magnifies it to. This requires a totally different setup to do that. In that case you use a 50mm, or normal view lens on your camera focused at infinity, then you focus while looking through the viewfinder. My preferred method for planetary shooting, if I am doing it.  It is more of a pain, but with a lot of patience, and practice you can get good results. I have not really done it digitally with a Dslr, I did a couple of shots with my P&S for grins&giggles of a partial eclipse a longtime ago.


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9 years 7 months ago #399922 by Richard Taylor
I'd love to get into astrophotography, just to much light polution here.  :(


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9 years 7 months ago #399985 by [email protected]
I'm also dying to get into astrophotography. It combines two of my biggest loves. However I do live in Chicago. :| Yikes. I'd have to drive quite a bit away from the city (and suburbs) to get any sort of dark sky unfortunately. Fortunately though, outside of Chicago is corn. Lots of corn and flat fields!

Astrophotography just seems like such a daunting hobby to learn. One is learning all the mumbo jumbo Joves wrote about telescopes. And then learning what's needed to connect my camera to it. Then techniques for getting the shot....

Time to start reading (learning) more!


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