(Continued from digital cameras and adapters forum)
Hello Mauricio. The seeing conditions were pretty bad that night. We had fog and clouds coming through constantly (I live in Florida). The images were actually taken through the fog. I took them in very high resolution, then resampled them to bring the size of the picture down smaller. This actually made the definition in the pictures better. Then, I used the sharpen feature to bring out the detail a little better. The setup I used was as follows:
Orion ED80
Orion Skyview Pro mount (mounted on Al's astro oak legs)
William Optics 2" 90 degree diagonal
University Optics 2.8x Klee barlow
Scopetronix Maxview 40 eyepiece and appropriate adapter
Olympus C-3020 zoom digital camera
I realize that the Scopetronix Maxview is probably not the optimal setup for astrophotography, but I wanted something that I could use to take some astro pictures through the telescope and take pictures using the 80 as a spotter as well.
I have a question though. Could someone tell me how is the best way to go about getting good focus in a setup like this? I can find good focus on the moon, or terrestrial stuff, but the little lcd screen on the camera isn't of much use while trying to get focus on planets.
Thanks,
Mike
Hello Mauricio. The seeing conditions were pretty bad that night. We had fog and clouds coming through constantly (I live in Florida). The images were actually taken through the fog. I took them in very high resolution, then resampled them to bring the size of the picture down smaller. This actually made the definition in the pictures better. Then, I used the sharpen feature to bring out the detail a little better. The setup I used was as follows:
Orion ED80
Orion Skyview Pro mount (mounted on Al's astro oak legs)
William Optics 2" 90 degree diagonal
University Optics 2.8x Klee barlow
Scopetronix Maxview 40 eyepiece and appropriate adapter
Olympus C-3020 zoom digital camera
I realize that the Scopetronix Maxview is probably not the optimal setup for astrophotography, but I wanted something that I could use to take some astro pictures through the telescope and take pictures using the 80 as a spotter as well.
I have a question though. Could someone tell me how is the best way to go about getting good focus in a setup like this? I can find good focus on the moon, or terrestrial stuff, but the little lcd screen on the camera isn't of much use while trying to get focus on planets.
Thanks,
Mike
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