 Fred S. MacKenzie |
shooting with a telescope Has anyone out there tried their hand at shooting through a telescope? I'd like some moon shots, and hoping to learn something. Does the ole f-16 rule apply for this? ( 1/100 for iso 100, 1/200 for iso 200 etc. )What about the so-called up-coming Mars encounter? Is anyone planning to shoot Mars as it passes by next month? Thanks for all the help.
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Andrew Laverghetta |
I have done a little bit of it but got a little discouraged recently. I need to get a special telescope adaptor for my SLR camera and a special T Mount adaptor for my Canon EOS. The closer pictures of the moon on my premium gallery were with my small digital point and shoot. For those I set the exposure compensation to underexpose two stops because it does use the sunny 16 rule. Oh yeah, I also just put the small digital camera right up to the eyepiece and used the viewfinder. If your camera has a smaller lens diameter and the eyepiece is larger, you might be able to put the camera right up to the telescope eyepiece. Otherwise you'll probably need to get a special adaptor. I think you can find them on bhphotovideo.com. They're not too expensive. Don't forget that if your exposures get too long of Mars and such that you will need to have a motor drive for your telescope unless you want streaks of light caused by the stars and planets. I might use some of my next paycheck to get the adaptor to be able to shoot through my telescope. If I get this adaptor, I might try some kind of shots of it? I think there's some website that's called something like "heavensabove.com"? But I'm not sure. Hope this helps.
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- Carolyn M. Fletcher  Contact Carolyn M. Fletcher Carolyn M. Fletcher's Gallery |
You probably will want to talk to Art Rosch. (Artsdigitalphotos.com)(I think). Check out his website. It's awesome.
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Tom Walker |
Andrew, what type of telescope do you have? I have a Bushnell 4 and a half inch reflector that I'd like to try taking some photos through
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Andrew Laverghetta |
My telescope is a Celestron Newtonian. It's 4.5inch diameter and somewhere around a meter long. I'm not sure of the exact model but this is very close if not a newer version of the one I have. http://www.celestron.com/prod_pgs/tel/fs114eq.htm I have a 25mm and 10mm eyepiece. Like I said, I believe I'm going to need to get the special adaptor like I posted about last time so I can take off the lens and eyepiece. Notice that the telescope says 900mm at f/8. I'm going to be going for some moon stuff and bright stars first because I don't have a motor drive to make up for the motion of the earth, right ascention or something.
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