AstroPhotography

98olds

Hi,

I was given the adapter ring that mounts on my Nikon D3000 to hook up to my telescope, but I need to get that to connect to the 1/4" eyepiece of the telescope.

The Telescope is a Celestron Nexstar.


Does anyone know what it is exactly I need to make this connection between the telescope and camera, and where It Is Id find it.

Thanks

Art Scott

Celestron Maybe???? Or a science education store.....edmunds scientific maybe????

ziggy53

98olds wrote: »

Hi,

I was given the adapter ring that mounts on my Nikon D3000 to hook up to my telescope, but I need to get that to connect to the 1/4" eyepiece of the telescope.

The Telescope is a Celestron Nexstar.


Does anyone know what it is exactly I need to make this connection between the telescope and camera, and where It Is Id find it.

Thanks

We need to know exactly what adapter ring you got for the camera and what diameter your eyepiece tube is? Typically telescopes use either 1.25" or 2" eyepieces.

Are you sure that your telescope mount can handle your camera weight?

knapph

You can either mount the camera on the telescope like it was a finder scope and do some wide field shots or attach the camera like it was an eyepiece. To attach like an eyepiece you can use a T mount. For the bits and pieces take a look at one of the telescope vendor websites (Orion www.telescopes.com or Ocean Pacific www.optcorp.com are two that come to mind). Also take a look at http://www.astropix.com/HTML/I_ASTROP/TOC_AP.HTM for more info about taking astro shots. You need to pay attention to what kind of shots you can get with the type of telescope mount you have. Do a (Google, Bing) search on astrophotography dlsr.

ImageX Photography

98olds wrote: »

Hi,

I was given the adapter ring that mounts on my Nikon D3000 to hook up to my telescope, but I need to get that to connect to the 1/4" eyepiece of the telescope.

The Telescope is a Celestron Nexstar.


Does anyone know what it is exactly I need to make this connection between the telescope and camera, and where It Is Id find it.

Thanks

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time2smile

Have you tried B&H they have a great selection of telescopes.
They must have adaptors...

Airedrifter

You didn't indicate which model of Nexstar you have. I have an 8.

I haven't gone through this in a while so double check, but here's the deal. You can mount the camera on two places (three if you count attaching a camera with a lens to the mount for rotational purposes) at the eyepiece or at the bottom of the main tube where the diagonal attaches. You get different focal lengths, field of views, or something... it's too mind boggling to remember all that... Anyway, I mount mine at the end of the tube, in fact Celestron has a name for this feature like "Faststar" or something... I'm not sure which models have this. The larger models do but I'm not sure about others You need a "T-mount" which it sounds like you have AND an extension tube. You will put the extension tube in like your diagonal and attache the T-mount to it. I don't remember which extension tube I got. I went to my Astronomy shop and walked out with the right stuff. The results are mixed at best. Astrophotography is brutal and for serious work very very very technically challenging and equipment dependent. (and expensive: huge base, wedge, guide scope, sensor for guide scope, computer, power supply, modified sensor...

With my simple set up, I'm limited to a few moons every now and then and bad planetary images. I haven't attached mine in 6 months...

Good luck:

Here's one of my moon shots: