Ive managed to get my old telescope back, not a very big one, but enough to see the planets and the moon with, but i want to progress and start some astrophotography, ive been looking at CCD camera's but i already have a DLSR and want to actually mount my Canon to the eye peice to get some awesome shots.

 

Im a bit limited at the moment though, as just want to practice the basics on my small Newtonian before upgrading to something larger with a 8" mirror minimum and a motor mount for tracking while doing long exposures.

My set up at the moment is a 114mm (4.5inch mirror) 1000mm focal length sky watcher telescope, with a EQ1 mount. pretty basic and not the best in the world, canon EOS 300D, ive mounted the camera on the telescope, but would rather be taking photos through the telescope as aposed to on it.

 

Does anyone have a lathe that they could fabricate an adapter with? i need it to go from 1.25" tube to something i can mount the camera onto.

 

anyway here is a picture of my baby.

 

 

this was the best i could do with the DSLR of the moon, which is actually quite rubbish due to camera shake and exposure time

 

This was achieved using a samsung D900 phone camera though the eye piece

 

as you can see the difference is quite striking, if i had the correct mount, i could avoid the blur associated with the DSLR and also get rid of the glare associated with the phone due to using the eyepiece.

Thought as its a lovely sunny day down here in Northampton, id try my hand at getting an image of the sun, obviously projecting it on the ceiling rather than looking through the eye piece (very dangerous) im actually impressed with how it came out. even shows current sun spots. anyway here we are.

 

 

Not bad when you compare it to NASA's SOHO satellite that orbits at 1 million miles towards the sun.

 

 

Please note mine is actually inverted and backwards due to the design of the telescope.