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Celestron 93625 Universal 1.25-inch Camera T-Adapter, Single
The Celestron Universal T-Adapter connects a DSLR or SLR camera to a refractor for prime focus photographyThe adapter’s chrome barrel slides into any focuser that accepts 1.25” accessoriesT-Threads accept camera brand specific T-Ring (sold separately)
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u/feynfan · 9 pointsr/pics

Here are 2 shots from the first night with the scope set-up below.
http://imgur.com/a/GVg3O

Here is the Scope used: 499.00 (Purchased a returned scope that had damage in shipping for 300.00...)
https://www.astronomics.com/astro-tech-8-inch-imaging-newtonian-optical-tube_p17402.aspx

Here is the mount used: 1,119.99
http://www.telescope.com/Mounts-Tripods/GoTo-Mounts-Tripods/Orion-Sirius-EQ-G-Computerized-GoTo-Telescope-Mount/pc/-1/c/2/sc/36/p/24336.uts

1618.99 total

You obviously will need a dslr camera with an adapter for the lens, but you can buy an adapter for cheap off of Amazon. For example.

http://www.amazon.com/Opteka-T-Mount-Adapter-Digital-Cameras/dp/B000KNCB7C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368734650&sr=8-1&keywords=canon+t+adapter

And

http://www.amazon.com/Celestron-93625-Universal-1-25-inch-T-Adapter/dp/B0000665V6/ref=pd_bxgy_p_img_y


It can be tricky learning how to align the scope, but plenty of resources online for learning. Also, you'll need to know how to set up your camera properly with the right ISO and accessories to allow for bulb exposure and mirror locking first... But... Holy shitballs it's worth it!!

u/photonoobie · 5 pointsr/photography

You'd probably need something like this, and a few other pieces (besides the actual telescope). You wouldn't use either of the lenses you have.

Just as important as the camera-to-telescope adapter is an extremely solid mount for the entire assembly. Most run of the mill telescope tripods and mounts won't be sturdy enough to eliminate the vibrations that will cause blurry pictures. A remote shutter release, mirror lockup, and a windless night would also be helpful in making blur free images.

u/Anzate · 5 pointsr/astrophotography

You will need a T adapter for your eyepiece holder (20$ at most) and a T mount to EOS adapter (10 to 15$). You can find both on Amazon: let me know if you have any trouble finding them (I'm on my phone on a train atm, sorry) see the links above. You can then use the free EOSMovrec software (on Sourceforge) to tether your camera to a PC and use the central part of your sensor to acquire near native resolution 1024x600 video. Beware: the binary Mac version is very outdated, you'll want to use the Windows version (or compile from the source). You'll then want to stack the video (e.g. in Registax).

EDIT: added links.

u/phpdevster · 4 pointsr/telescopes

You don't need much more than a portable 3" telescope to image the sun itself, and see planets. You will see the rings of saturn and moons and cloud belts of Jupiter, but not a lot of detail.

As far as being able to record stars next to the sun during a solar eclipse, that's hard to say, and could be very dangerous.

When there is a total solar eclipse, you end up seeing the corona around the sun. But this corona can be quite bright and dense, and obscure stars behind it. What's more is, you can't have a solar filter on during this time if you want to record the stars as it will completely block their light. So you have a very short window in which you can safely record images before enough of the sun shines brightly enough that it burns the image sensor on the camera (or your eye, if you're trying to position it).

Moreover, depending on how close the stars have to be to the edge of the sun in order to measure the effects of its mass, you may need high power. High power means you need a tracking mount, and that may be difficult to get for $250.

All that aside, you'll definitely want a DSLR for this because a cheap webcam will likely produce too much noise/grain and will have too low a resolution when trying to image potentially faint stars near the sun. To couple the DLSR to the telescope requires a T-Adapter and a T-Ring for the particular brand of camera you'll be using.

u/shinfenn · 3 pointsr/astrophotography

Here is an example on Amazon for the 1.25" kind (the type the score you are looking at will work with. It goes in place of your eye piece.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0000665V6/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?qid=1413602179&sr=8-6&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&dpPl=1&dpID=211R69YGRGL&dpPlWS=1&ref=plSrch

u/plaidhat1 · 3 pointsr/astrophotography

There are two parts that work together. There's the T-ring, which is particular to your camera; and there's the T-adapter, which is not. As a general rule, T-adapters are not specific to the scope - they either have a 1.25" barrel or a 2" barrel, so it's really a matter of what size focuser your scope has.

I'm not familiar with the particular T-adapter you've linked to, so perhaps someone else could offer more definitive commentary on it. If I understand correctly how it's intended to work, the wide end would screw into the rear cell on your SCT, where the narrower end would screw into your T-ring. I'm more familiar with this other model, which works as I described and should also, as far as I know, be able to work with an SCT.

u/penguinland · 3 pointsr/Astronomy

> how can I find dark locations near me to look at stars?

Go to the physics department in your school, and talk to the professor who does astrophysics. He or she probably knows what to do. If this doesn't work, see if there's an amateur astronomy club in your city, and go to one of their meetings (they're likely to have monthly stargazing parties or something).

> Are there any photography-specific telescopes out there

Assuming you have an SLR camera, get a T adapter and T ring. The T adapter replaces the eyepiece of whatever telescope you get and makes it easy to hook T rings on, and the T ring has the same mounting mechanism as the lens to your SLR camera. Make sure to get both pieces made by the same company that makes your telescope, and get the T ring that's the proper size for the maker of your camera.

If you intend to do deep space photography (i.e., very long exposures of very faint objects), you'll need a computerized mount so that the telescope can keep the object in view as it moves across the sky. In particular, it should be a computerized equatorial mount, so that the object in your field of view doesn't rotate as the telescope tracks it. Nearly all computerized mounts are equatorial, just double-check that you don't get one of the unusual ones. Unfortunately, these tend to be expensive. It's much cheaper to start with a non-computerized mount and to photograph bright things like planets.

u/NotTimHeidecker · 3 pointsr/astrophotography

I went ahead and looked up the adapters you would need to hook up to an Orion telescope, the t-ring and the camera adapter. However, this looks like it can total to over $60 for adapters. Apparently the Orion T-ring and a Celestron camera adapter are most frequently bought together. I'm not sure of how the two different brands will work together.

u/alkw0ia · 2 pointsr/3Dprinting

You generally get one of these to adapt from the telescope eyepiece tube to the "T-mount" standard (a dead simple lowest common denominator camera lens mount originally used by Tamron – basically just a threaded ring), plus a T-mount to whatever your camera takes – e.g. Nikon F mount, or Canon EF mount in the OP's case – adapter ring.

So about $15 for the telescope to T adapter and $9 for the T to EF ring.

u/mkbarracus · 2 pointsr/Astronomy

I did the same but the t adapter doesn't let you use any lense. I got mine on amazon for £23. I didn't use it much in the end.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0000665V6/ref=oh_details_o07_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

u/lencioni · 2 pointsr/mycology

I own a Canon DSLR. Do you know if it is possible to buy an attachment so I can use the camera I already have or would I need to buy a special camera to use with a microscope?

Thanks for all of the help so far. If I could upvote you more than once, I would.

Edit: it looks like I would be able to get a T-mount for my camera and then a T-adapter maybe? Is that correct?

u/inventor226 · 2 pointsr/Astronomy

If you find a NX to a T2 mount you can attach it to pretty much any telescope using a T-adapter.

The problem with using a camera with a dob is it is very hard to use. With no tracking only planets/the moon will be valid target and even then keeping it on target can be hard.If you need more help come vist us at /r/astrophotography.

u/False_explanation · 2 pointsr/Astronomy

Lots of people use the 8" for pics. I have one, but I don't have a good enough camera yet. From what I've read and seen, it really is just as easy as buying a t-ring and the adapter.


This:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000665V6/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER

And this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000XMUKK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&m=A1MX591ICBLWRE
(assuming it fits your camera)

Should be all you need. However, if you don't have one of them motorized mounts, you won't be getting the best pictures of up close stuff. For me, Jupiter leaves the scope in about 20 seconds max. Then again, I view it through my bedroom so the scope sits on carpet. And I have the springs on, so maybe that's messing with it too.


Anyway, I hope I helped. Can't wait to see some pics!


Edit: what kind of camera do you have? I'm in the market for one.

u/Sedonawa · 2 pointsr/astrophotography

Hello,

I'm planning on making an astrophotography setup. I've used this subreddit's guide to assemble something's, but I just wanted to check if all the items in my list are correct. I'm also confused on where to buy some items required for the setup.

Here are the list of things that I have/am going to buy.

https://www.firstlightoptics.com/skywatcher-mounts/skywatcher-heq5-pro-synscan.html - Skywatcher HEQ5 Mount

https://www.astronomics.com/astro-tech-6-f-4-imaging-newtonian-optical-tube.html - AstroTech 6 inch imaging Newtonian Telescope

https://www.otelescope.com/store/product/4-backyardnikon-20-premium-edition-otl-byn-p/ - BackyardNIKON premium edition

Nikon D850 - DSLR (Already Own)

https://www.astronomics.com/t-ring-for-nikon-35mm-and-dslr-cameras.html - T-Ring for Nikon DSLR cameras

https://www.amazon.com/Celestron-93625-Universal-1-25-inch-T-Adapter/dp/B0000665V6 - Universal 1.25 inch camera T-Adapter

https://www.astronomics.com/astro-tech-7-short-universal-dovetail-plate-for-vixen-style-mounts-black.html - ASTRO-TECH 7" SHORT UNIVERSAL DOVETAIL PLATE FOR VIXEN-STYLE MOUNTS

https://www.telescope.com/Orion-Magnificent-Mini-AutoGuider-Package/p/99631.uts?keyword=orion%20magnificent%20mini - Orion Magnificent Mini AutoGuider Package

https://www.astronomics.com/astro-tech-photo-visual-coma-corrector-field-flattener-for-fast-focal-ratio-newtonian-reflectors.html - Coma Corrector

TUBE RINGS - Don't know where to find one for my telescope!!

I would really appreciate any help on finding the missing items, and suggest additional items if I didn't include them in this list. Thank you so much for taking the time to read through this post!

u/turkeyonbread · 2 pointsr/astrophotography

Basically, yes, but you'll also need a few relatively cheap things to make sure you have power and a way to mount the camera to the scope. And you can definitely go much cheaper (especially on the camera). I just had the camera prior to getting into astrophotography because I do photography as well.

To answer your question, the only other thing I purchased separately that was involved in my setup for this shot was the battery pack that powers the mount, a T-Ring, and a T-Adapter that allows me to mount my camera to the scope.

Power Tank

T-Ring

T-Adapter

Again. You can go much cheaper on the camera and can actually just use a webcam to shoot the video that you'll stack into a still. Registax is free. Autostakkert is free. And there are free photoshop alternatives. You'll also want to use this program called BackyardEOS to shoot the videos at 5x zoom (My computer was acting up for this shot, so I didn't use it this time around) but it's well worth the $30 I think I paid for it. You can get even clearer shots like this one I got a while back. The program allows you to digitally zoom in at 5x using and use only a part of the camera's sensor. Please let me know if you need any other information. I'd be glad to help. Hope this helps some!

u/astrowichita · 2 pointsr/astrophotography

For a Cell phone, just hold it up to the eyepiece. For extra stability, you could get an eyepiece adapter. With few exceptions (newer cell phone cameras are getting sophisticated enough for long~ish exposure on bright objects), the only objects you will be able to snap will be planets and the Moon.

For a DSLR, you will need 2 components, a T-Ring which acts as a lens attachment (and you will need to find one for your specific camera brand), and a T-Adapter which will allow the camera to insert into the telescope like an eyepice. Given you are going to an actual observatory, they likely use 2" eyepieces, so a 2" T-adapter will probably be needed.

You should also make sure they are OK with you taking pictures like this. I help run a local public observatory (ie no research, just open nights for the public to look up) and we host monthly photo nights, but setting up the scope for photography requires changing the focus and if you are taking photos that means you'll be tying up any lines behind you for several minutes. On the other hand, if this is a private observatory and you don't have to worry about lines, then great. I would call ahead to make sure either way - maybe they already have the adapters you need

u/prbphoto · 2 pointsr/photography

Here's my revised advice, get this telescope and this adapter.

I'm not thrilled with the aperture value (f7.8 or something at 1000mm) but it does come with cheap German Equatorial mount. You can use the finder piece and the mount controls to manually track stars and planets. I believe the German Equatorial mount, if my memory serves me correctly, can be set to various angles so that you will only have to adjust one knob to track any body in the sky (as opposed to having to turn two knobs like an etch-a-sketch to track).

Long exposures are needed to photograph planets, stars, galaxies, etc. You'll want the tracking ability, even if it is done manually.

u/intravenus_de_milo · 2 pointsr/astrophotography

Still, here's the hardware:

http://www.amazon.com/Adorama-T-Mount-Adapter-Autofocus-Cameras/dp/B0002E3WRC

http://www.amazon.com/Celestron-93625-Universal-1-25-inch-T-Adapter/dp/B0000665V6/ref=pd_bxgy_p_img_y/180-3872360-3150301

and for really high powered viewing screw this to the t-mount adapter:

http://www.amazon.com/Celestron-93230-24mm-1-25-Eyepiece/dp/B0007UQNV8

The t threads are under the eye cup.


In bright sun light, this telescope will work as a 1000mm lens, but telescopes, especially cheaper ones, are not as well corrected. So it's going to have more aberrations than even cheap photographic lenses have.

u/Captainmathmo · 1 pointr/astrophotography

For reference, I just recently bought these two:

u/Zorbane · 1 pointr/astrophotography

Thanks a lot it's been really helpful.

Right now I'm looking at this and this. I'll be good then?

I know it's a 1.25 and you said to get a 2" but right now I'm going cheap. When/if I decide to really start doing things hardcore I'll get the nice stuff.

u/schorhr · 1 pointr/telescopes

Hello :-)

They do sell cameras within your budget (e.g. this one), but of course you get what you pay for, but for a few planet snapshots it's usable. But then, so would be a smartphone with an adapter ([1]() 2 3) or compact camera adapter (1) or DSLR adapter [e.g. Canon 1 2].

A simple moon filter will work, a adjustable polarization filter being the deluxe variant.

Do you know what eyepieces he has?

What the stock XT8 lacks is a 2" wide angle overview eyepiece (1, 2, 3, 4)


Also missing in the xt8 kit is a ~6mm eyepiece for a bit more magnification for planets. You can get a good budget eyepiece for under $40 or a great ultra wide angle one for $150.

The Orion XT8 comes with eyepieces that have ~52° apparent field of view (see this graphic).

You can also get a solar filter if he' into that.

Or a right-angle correct-image finder to replace that small red-dot finder (1 2 3)...

Any idea what he observes the most? What things he already has?

u/kiponator · 1 pointr/Astronomy

This refractor on a CG-4 EQ mount looks to me like a good starting point for astrophoto for less than what you want to spend. You have to add motor drives, a polar finder scope, a camera adapter, and T-ring to connect your camera but then you are good to go.

There is a version of this setup using a 150mm reflector as the imaging scope that has given very impressive results. "Jarrodnb" has posted his images here over the last several months. Whether to go with the refractor or the reflector is probably a matter of preference. The reflector gathers more light and has a shorter f/ratio, both of which enable shorter exposure times.

I don't think you can get an imaging setup with autoguiding like the CG-5 for the money you are looking to spend, but a lot of people may say that it is needed for decent results.

I am using a wedge-mounted Celestron 8 I got on Craigslist along with a second hand Canon 400D, and so far I have this image of M13. It's FAR from perfect but I enjoyed the process of making it.

u/DumbDumbGoodbye · 1 pointr/astrophotography

I have an old basic go to scope from Mead. I believe it's a 4.5" Meade refractor. I bought this eyepiece adapter for it but my Olympus micro4/3 camera needs to be closer zoomed in. I mean it needs to be closer into the scope. The focus knob needs to be more screwed in. I need less throw on it.

Celestron 93625 Universal 1.25-inch Camera T-Adapter https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000665V6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_wRACDbC77S135

I don't know how to describe it. I need the focus point less deep than this item allows. Do they make things like this?

u/MattC867 · 1 pointr/astrophotography

this goes on the camera. Then something like this screws into the first adapter and connects you to the telescope. You need to check whether your scope can take 2" eye pieces or not. If it only take the 1.25" size, then you would need this instead. On a crop sensor it probably doesn't make a huge difference, but you'll get less vignetting with the 2" adapter.