Posted by admin | Posted in Spyderco Ying Yang | Posted on 02-05-2009
Tags: bushnell telescope. voyager sky tour, buy, elist08, one, star, telescope
astrophotography question?
My brother has a Bushnell voyager sky tour telescope, and I want to take pictures of the sky using my camera and his telescope, (at the moment it just sits around collecting dust). But I cannot find an adapter to hold the camera body so the telescope is the lens. My camera is a Digital-SLR Canon XT.
If you know where to find one or what one might be called please let me know, thank you!
Orion can sell you the adapter you need: http://www.telescope.com/control/product/~category_id=photo_accessories/~pcategory=astro-imaging/~product_id=05264
Note you’ll also need a Canon EOS T-adapter. Once you figure out how to set this up and focus it, you should be able to get pictures of the moon. To get star clusters, galaxies, etc. will require a bit more work, if it’s possible at all with your telescope. You need a solid equatorial mount with a motor drive. With a less than solid equatorial mount, you will have to take lots of short exposures and stack them. Without a driven equatorial mount, you’ll be limited to the moon. You don’t say what model sky tour your brother has, but those low-end Bushnells range from totally unsuitable to (at best) inadequate for astrophotography.
Astrophotography is a challenging pursuit, even with a better telescope. I suggest you get a good book on DSLR astrophotography (see links below).
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