Telescope on a camera

Deliverance XXV

Hey people.

Just wondering if any of you have any experience with a telescope on a camera like this one from eBay...

http://cgi.ebay.ie/25-75X-Telescope-1200mm-3600mm-for-all-SLR-DSLR-Cameras_W0QQitemZ220324569200QQihZ012QQcategoryZ30070QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem

I would love to get into moon/astrophotography and feel if this gives even half the quality it states in the ad I'd be happy. Check out the example pics in the ad, do you think these would be achievable in broad daylight for distance shots/enough moonlight for a moon shot?

Cheers for any input

TJM

The sample images on that page aren't great. Possibly fine for moon photography, but for anything else in the night sky I suspect the effective aperture would be so high / exposures so long that you'd need an equatorial mount. It would make more sense (and might not be much more expensive) to wait for the next Aldi telescope special offer & then buy an adapter for your camera.

PixelTrawler

There was an article in Decembers practical photography on this.

Some guy was getting cracking wildlife shots with a small canon compact and a telescope.

He was using a Kowa Prominar TSN-823M and they were estimating a lense equivilant of 1120-4480MM!

melekalikimaka

pretty sure sebzy brought this topic up a year or two ago and may have picked up one online for sub 200 euro???

5uspect

Ring Astronomy Ireland. They have some good starter scopes for around €100 with T mounts.

nilhg

I think that before anyone spends any money on something like this they need to do their research, to produce good quality shots needs either a very thorough methodical approach and proper software or a high quality equatorial mount, and they ain't cheap or easy to setup properly.

You will get reasonable shots of the moon with budget equipment but anything dimmer is not easy.

bogman

IFAS - Home of Irish Astronomy

http://www.irishastronomy.org/cms/forum

These are the people to check with, plenty very informed people, IFAS has astronomy clubs linked to it all over the country, several forums on the website, one dedicated to astro photography