Using Olympus E-10 for astrophography,need help

It's been overcast the last three weeks so no photo practice possible. I have been trying to use the equipment I have to take astrophoto's will limited success. I have a Meade LX-200 GPS 12" f10, lots of eyepieces, and a Olympus E-10 digital camera. Thyis model camera has a fixed large 35-140 zoom lens. I have attached the camera to the eyepiece via a digi-t adaptor. Photos; of the moon were fine but when I try and take a picture of a planet I get a refelection thru my setup of the secondary mirror. I have been told to speed up the shutter speed and this should correct this problem (Weather not cooperating to try this). But this brings me to my question. Are those of you that use digital cameras to take platary or nebula photo's using the camera's lens in your setup or is it a better idea to eleminate this when connecting to scope setup? I'm starting to think my E-10 is a grat daylight camera but not useable for astophotography. Let me know what your experiences have been in this regard. Thanks.

Kirk

Hiya Kirk,

I've been using an Olympus 3000 (till it wet the bed, then switched to the 4000) for nearly two years now. Lunar and planetary imaging is a bit easier than trying to capture deepsky objects with digital cameras. But you should be able to capture some beautiful images with your scope and camera. It just takes some patience and some experimentation. Below is a site I built about digital eyepiece projection astrophotography. It may not be the best out there on the web (and there are some great digital camera sites out there) but it's a place to start!

http://dicknixon76.tripod.com/space/digital_astronomy.htm

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