Thanks for this video. Astrophotography can quickly become an expensive hobby but a relatively inexpensive Alt-Az mount and achromatic refractor can give decent images especially as processing software can do a lot to remove CA around stars. You can buy filters to help reduce blue fringing or use a Ha filter for monochrome imaging of the Moin or nebulae when the CA limitations of an achromatic are removed. Look forward to viewing more videos. Cheers, Steve
Thank you Steve, you are right about the anti fringing filters, I have a baader one which works very well. I also use the reduce purple fringing command in photoshop, which does a good job. Thank you very much for watching and taking the time to comment, I really appreciate your support.
This is good timing Jon 👌. I am buying a car that I can use as a camper and get out into the countryside where there’s less light pollution 😃. It even has a sunroof, so the idea of looking up at the stars with a cheap telescope is very appealing 👍
I see a lot of videos now of people using cars as mini camper vans. It's a great idea, but sadly for me I think my car is a bit too small for this. This scope is really nice to use just looking at the stars and you can fit it to a normal Photographic tripod for this purpose. I'll be doing a closer look at the scope itself in a couple of weeks
Nice! I've just ordered my first scope and the setup is almost identical. Initially I ordered a Celestron 80AZS but the seller ran out of stock. I settled on a used Saxon 804AZ3 which again is a clone of this scope, and in fact I did also see an Orion for sale but its viewfinder, mount, tripod and eyepiece were missing. The cost in Australia for the Saxon was AU$225.00 shipped, RRP being almost exactly AU$500.00 (yes, prices have risen dramatically in the past year!). The camera I bought is a Canon 5D Mk I, a full frame first generation unit with a large, low noise sensor at a very reasonable AU$216.00 including shipping. So, your video shows very closely the sort of result I can expect from this setup, which I should receive next week. The great thing about these little scopes is that they're fabulous for portability, and if I decide to go further it can also be used as a viewfinder for a larger Newtonian or Dobsonian design. Thanks for the review, it helped greatly.
I am very pleased that my video helped you. I think that you will be very pleased by what is possible, and you have a good camera there too. Good Luck, and clear skies in your endeavours 🙂
Hi John great video as always 👏 👏👏. I like the music too in your videos..very relaxing. Is it your choice or generic? Good either way! Can’t beat a short tube 80 for value, I have the Meade version & will be attempting the andromeda galaxy soon. Your videos have inspired me to have a go so thanks again 👍
Hi Scott, I am very pleased that my videos have encouraged you to get your scope out. The music used in my videos is of my choosing. I subscribe to Epidemic Sound which has tens if thousands of tracks with different moods that you can use without fear of copyright claims. I tend to go for fairly mellow stuff for my videos. Glad you like my choices. Thank you very much for taking tge time to watch and comment, your support is very much appreciated 😀
We love a rummage John! Interested to see how this older telescope gets on 🌃 🔭 ❤ Hope you and Mrs Camping Astronomer are well, have a great weekend, Ceri and Kat ☕ ❤ 🗺 🎄
It was hiding under my bed so I decided to give it a night out. I have been doing a bit of clearing up and have also found a couple of tents I don't use any more. It's amazing the gear you gradually accumulate (In my case 5 tents, 4 telescopes, 3 road bikes, and 3 pairs of walking boots (soon to be 4 if Santa doesn't loose them) 🤣 Have a great weekend 👍
Very helpful have been wanting to get a new scope here recently and you might have made my mind up to get one Anyways thanks for sharing this video, just found your channel and I’m really enjoying it! Full support to you and I can’t wait to see more!
Thank you for your kind words 🙂. I'll do a more detailed look at the scope in a couple of weeks which I hope you will find useful. I've hopped over to your channel and subscribed, looks like you have some nice content. Best wishes to you for Christmas 🎄
Nice video John. I’ve only ever done alt az photography so very good to see what a pro like you can get from short exposures. Thanks for putting this out and hope you have a nice Christmas.
Thank for watching and your kind comment. When I first started doing astrophotography the guidance was always that you couldn't use an alt az mount. Consequently I was amazed when I could image targets like the Horsehead Nebula using an alt az mount and 15 sec exposures. You do need to take a lot of exposures if possible, but it's perfectly possible to get images you will be proud of and amaze your friends with. Best Wishes for a happy Christmas 🎄 😊
Hi John, you seem to produce some amazing shots with the equipment which you described as entry level. Shows that you don't always have to spend loads. I have a Celestron Nextstar 130slt and an old Canon 1100D both are entry but could never quite set it up for astrophotography as it all seemed very technical but having seen your videos it may not be as daunting as I thought. I look forward to your video on the Orion short tube 80mm refractor telescope. Wishing you all the best for the New Year
Hi Keith, thanks for watching and commenting. For me, it was using the Orion ST80 scope that made things much simpler. The short focal length is very forgiving and allows you to get decent results from an alt az mount like the Nexstar SLT. The video looking in more detail at th Orion ST80 should be up a week in Friday (god wiling as I have to film it yet 🤣). Best wishes to you and yours for 2022.
This was such a good video John! I just love the way you can make such a lovely image from less than an hour of time under the sky and a setup that costs less than I spend on a single filter for my camera. Superbly done!
I am really glad I didn't sell it and look forward to putting on my EQ mount to get longer exposures on it. Thanks for watching and commenting, its much appreciated 😊
It’s interesting to see what you do with that mount John. I’ll have to give it a go sometime soon because I also have the Mak you mention but have hardly ever used it other than for some planetary and lunar imaging. I have a Skywatcher 72ED which I bought to go on my Star Adventurer mount last year. It too suffers from a bit of CA but like you, I find the function in Camera Raw useful to get rid of it. I think the 72ED would be a ‘good fit’ on the Celestron Alt-Az mount for visual astronomy, particularly with its Go-To facility, given its much wider field of view. Equally, it may produce some acceptable short exposure results with my DSLR. As always, thanks for sharing. Have a great Christmas and all the best for the new year 🤝
Hi Ian, I have a 70ED refractor which often gets used on the Celestron alt az mount. Here is a video showing typical results ruclips.net/video/RMLBGTVgprE/видео.html Thanks for watching and commenting, and best wishes to you for Christmas 🎄
Nice! It's good to see that you don't need a expensive scope to get into astrophotography. There is a lot of chromatic abberration, but as a beginner you shouldn't care too much about that. The result is great and there is always room for improvement.
I agree entirely. I think it's a great starter scope and I used for for about a year to get a grip on the basics of processing etc before getting a 70mm ED scope. I might try putting the Orion scope on my EQ mount just to see what it does with longer exposures. Best wishes to you for Christmas 🎄
Purple/blue fringing around planets, not very good but a little around distant stars has a more artistic look to them. They seem more interesting to look at than just pure white pin pricks of light. Anyways, good video. RUclips is made for people like you unlike most of the dross you find on here. Nice choice of music btw and I hit the subscribe button. I have the SW Star Travel 80 and I just love that little scope.
Glad you enjoyed the video, these 80mm scopes are fantastic value for money, and I can credit mine for getting me into astrophotography, which I had previously thought to be a super expensive hobby. I am glad you like the music, I try to make my videos fairly relaxing to watch. Thank you very much for your sub, your support is very much appreciated 👍
It is a really good scope to get a person started. I think a lot if people who use it keep it as they get more experienced and I gather it gets used as a guide scope if people end up with a large main telescope. I've popped over to your channel and subscribed to you. I look forward to watching some of your videos this weekend. Thanks very much for taking the time to watch and comment 🙂👍
I have the same gear (Startravel 80) put that scope on your eq3 and lets photo the same target, I’ll send you my data and see what we get?? Could have a few ST-80 owners chip in as well?? Just an idea 💡👍🏼
That sounds like a great idea. After Christmas I get some decent targets appear above the trees at my house (Orion Nebula, Flame and Horsehead, Rossette Nebula). All would make good targets I think.
Hi Alan, Hope you had a good day yesterday. To get my images from the SD card onto my computer I have a USB card reader. I plug the card reader into the USB port on my laptop and then put the SD card into the slot on the card reader. Then I can drag and drop the files onto my desktop. The software I use at this point depends on what I have been imaging. What are your images of, and what is the file format of them (eg jpeg, Tiff etc) ?
@@thecampingastronomer8554 iam foreward planning. If,when we get a clear night,I set my canon 100d,in the 80mm refractor,pointed at Orion nebula,using az GTi tracker,.Take several exposures (with intervelometer use),then I can slot SD card into my laptop,these need processing and stacking? This is my plan.....😅
In addition,when I download regular snaps from my SD card they are individual as you would expect.How do you get say 50 snaps of a nebula into a stacker.Iam missing something. Can you take a video and use this,as is equivalent to hundreds of frames?
@@alanrobinson2229 OK, I see where you are at. So, the first thing is to take 50 or so single exposures. If you can, set your camera to take both Raw files and jpegs as a back up. The format of the raw files on your canon will probably be cr2. If using a dslr on a deep sky object like the Orion Nebula you take single exposures rather than a video. You want to use an ISO of about 1600 and whatever exposure length you can get without getting star trails. After your session you can create a folder on your desktop and copy and paste all of the files from your sd card to this folder using either a pre-existing card slot in your computer or a USB card reader. You now have 50 or so images in this folder. You now want to load these into a stacking programme. You currently have Registax I think. This programme is best suited to processing video files of things like the moon and planets. For deep sky objects like the Orion Nebula I use a free stacking programme called Sequator. This is very simple to use and 99% of the time comes up with a decent stacked image. I then put this image into photoshop to do my processing, although other packages are suitable. I used to use GIMP for this which is a free clone of photoshop. I did a video on processing for absolute beginners. I show the whole process from inputing your individual images into Sequator, through the stacking process, and on into Photoshop until my final image is produced. The link to this is here ruclips.net/video/_kknmyqEFTc/видео.html I hope you find this helpful.
Hello Robert, thanks for watching and commenting. You are correct in that the mount costs more than the scope. This is a normal situation in astrophotography, and its because the mount is the most important part of the system. The Nexstar SLT mount normally comes with an optical tube, but it does appear occasionally on the internet just as a mount. A quick check this evening showed it selling between £250 and £300. The ST80 optical tube costs about £110, and there are some adapters etc used which total perhaps £50 at most. This makes the cost of this set up at less than £500, which is very much inside the budget end of the spectrum. I already had the camera, but if you needed to buy this it is probably worth about £300 for the camera body. A 2 or 3:1 ratio between mount cost and optical tube cost is pretty standard. Hope this answers your question, and trust you have a good weekend 👍
Hi Alan, your questions are good ones. Essentially you buy a little adaptor (called a T ring and T adaptor), which attaches to your camera like a lens would. This adaptor then slides into your telescope, so the scope is acting as the cameras lens. These cost about £20 on Amazon and you have to buy the t ring to suit your camera brand (ie a canon type t ring for a Canon dslr etc). This scope has a 400mm focal length, so it behaves like having a 400mm telephoto lens on your camera. In terms of setting the exposure time etc on your camera, you need to do this in your cameras manual mode rather than any if the automatic modes. Here you can select exposure time and ISO settings. Finally you use a type of remote shutter release called an intervalometer to automatically take your shots (rather than you physically pressing the shutter button 147 times). You can also programme in the exposure time on the intervalometer. These are quite inexpensive (around £20 on amazon) and worth their weight in gold.
@@alanrobinson2229 that's the best way, just making a bit of progress each time. I reckon if you wanted to you could make it a lifetime hobby and still not have done everything there is to do.
@@thecampingastronomer8554 I got the cheap second hand 90mm Meade telescope out last night and for the first time in my life saw the Orion nebula,amazing.
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Nice song played during fast forward setup.
Glad you enjoyed it. I like this song too 😊
Thanks for the video! A good review and a good result with such a tube and less than 20 minutes exposure
Hi Igor, glad you liked the video. I think that this scope is very good for the money.
Thanks for this video. Astrophotography can quickly become an expensive hobby but a relatively inexpensive Alt-Az mount and achromatic refractor can give decent images especially as processing software can do a lot to remove CA around stars. You can buy filters to help reduce blue fringing or use a Ha filter for monochrome imaging of the Moin or nebulae when the CA limitations of an achromatic are removed. Look forward to viewing more videos.
Cheers, Steve
Thank you Steve, you are right about the anti fringing filters, I have a baader one which works very well. I also use the reduce purple fringing command in photoshop, which does a good job.
Thank you very much for watching and taking the time to comment, I really appreciate your support.
This is good timing Jon 👌. I am buying a car that I can use as a camper and get out into the countryside where there’s less light pollution 😃. It even has a sunroof, so the idea of looking up at the stars with a cheap telescope is very appealing 👍
I see a lot of videos now of people using cars as mini camper vans. It's a great idea, but sadly for me I think my car is a bit too small for this.
This scope is really nice to use just looking at the stars and you can fit it to a normal Photographic tripod for this purpose. I'll be doing a closer look at the scope itself in a couple of weeks
@@thecampingastronomer8554 👏…I’ll be checking out that video ✅
Nice! I've just ordered my first scope and the setup is almost identical. Initially I ordered a Celestron 80AZS but the seller ran out of stock. I settled on a used Saxon 804AZ3 which again is a clone of this scope, and in fact I did also see an Orion for sale but its viewfinder, mount, tripod and eyepiece were missing. The cost in Australia for the Saxon was AU$225.00 shipped, RRP being almost exactly AU$500.00 (yes, prices have risen dramatically in the past year!). The camera I bought is a Canon 5D Mk I, a full frame first generation unit with a large, low noise sensor at a very reasonable AU$216.00 including shipping. So, your video shows very closely the sort of result I can expect from this setup, which I should receive next week. The great thing about these little scopes is that they're fabulous for portability, and if I decide to go further it can also be used as a viewfinder for a larger Newtonian or Dobsonian design. Thanks for the review, it helped greatly.
I am very pleased that my video helped you. I think that you will be very pleased by what is possible, and you have a good camera there too.
Good Luck, and clear skies in your endeavours 🙂
Looks like a good bit of gear. Merry Christmas!
Thanks Beth, Merry Christmas to you and yours 🎄🙂
Hi John great video as always 👏 👏👏.
I like the music too in your videos..very relaxing. Is it your choice or generic? Good either way!
Can’t beat a short tube 80 for value, I have the Meade version & will be attempting the andromeda galaxy soon. Your videos have inspired me to have a go so thanks again 👍
Hi Scott, I am very pleased that my videos have encouraged you to get your scope out.
The music used in my videos is of my choosing. I subscribe to Epidemic Sound which has tens if thousands of tracks with different moods that you can use without fear of copyright claims. I tend to go for fairly mellow stuff for my videos. Glad you like my choices.
Thank you very much for taking tge time to watch and comment, your support is very much appreciated 😀
Such a stunning video really loved this,please stay safe debs
Thank you Debs. Best wishes to you and yours for Christmas 🎄
We love a rummage John! Interested to see how this older telescope gets on 🌃 🔭 ❤
Hope you and Mrs Camping Astronomer are well, have a great weekend, Ceri and Kat ☕ ❤ 🗺 🎄
Absolutely agree post processing can't help heaps, certainly with a more budget friendly bit of kit, an ideal starter scope!? 😀 thanks John ☕ ❤ 👍
It was hiding under my bed so I decided to give it a night out. I have been doing a bit of clearing up and have also found a couple of tents I don't use any more. It's amazing the gear you gradually accumulate (In my case 5 tents, 4 telescopes, 3 road bikes, and 3 pairs of walking boots (soon to be 4 if Santa doesn't loose them) 🤣
Have a great weekend 👍
Awesome Video John!! The Double Cluster is Splendid!! Great Video :)!
Thank you for watching, glad you liked it.
Best wishes to you for Christmas 🎄
@@thecampingastronomer8554 Merry Christmas to you as Well. I just Posted a New Video!
@@avt_astro206 excellent, I'll have a look at that 👍
Very helpful have been wanting to get a new scope here recently and you might have made my mind up to get one Anyways thanks for sharing this video, just found your channel and I’m really enjoying it! Full support to you and I can’t wait to see more!
Thank you for your kind words 🙂. I'll do a more detailed look at the scope in a couple of weeks which I hope you will find useful.
I've hopped over to your channel and subscribed, looks like you have some nice content.
Best wishes to you for Christmas 🎄
Really a VERY nice result with this budget telescope. And I have to say very impressive post-image processing skills! 👍🏼cs
Thank you for watching, and best wishes to you for Christmas 🎄
@@thecampingastronomer8554 Thank you very much John, 😊Also to you best wishes and have very nice Christmas holidays. 🎄😀
Nice video John. I’ve only ever done alt az photography so very good to see what a pro like you can get from short exposures. Thanks for putting this out and hope you have a nice Christmas.
Thank for watching and your kind comment. When I first started doing astrophotography the guidance was always that you couldn't use an alt az mount. Consequently I was amazed when I could image targets like the Horsehead Nebula using an alt az mount and 15 sec exposures. You do need to take a lot of exposures if possible, but it's perfectly possible to get images you will be proud of and amaze your friends with.
Best Wishes for a happy Christmas 🎄 😊
Hi John, you seem to produce some amazing shots with the equipment which you described as entry level. Shows that you don't always have to spend loads. I have a Celestron Nextstar 130slt and an old Canon 1100D both are entry but could never quite set it up for astrophotography as it all seemed very technical but having seen your videos it may not be as daunting as I thought. I look forward to your video on the Orion short tube 80mm refractor telescope. Wishing you all the best for the New Year
Hi Keith, thanks for watching and commenting. For me, it was using the Orion ST80 scope that made things much simpler. The short focal length is very forgiving and allows you to get decent results from an alt az mount like the Nexstar SLT.
The video looking in more detail at th Orion ST80 should be up a week in Friday (god wiling as I have to film it yet 🤣).
Best wishes to you and yours for 2022.
This was such a good video John! I just love the way you can make such a lovely image from less than an hour of time under the sky and a setup that costs less than I spend on a single filter for my camera. Superbly done!
Thanks Joe, I really enjoyed getting this scope out again.
Best wishes to you and yours for Christmas 🎄
Yep it's called Sky-Watcher Startravel 80 OTA I like it as well for the usage you mentioned.
I am really glad I didn't sell it and look forward to putting on my EQ mount to get longer exposures on it. Thanks for watching and commenting, its much appreciated 😊
It’s interesting to see what you do with that mount John. I’ll have to give it a go sometime soon because I also have the Mak you mention but have hardly ever used it other than for some planetary and lunar imaging. I have a Skywatcher 72ED which I bought to go on my Star Adventurer mount last year. It too suffers from a bit of CA but like you, I find the function in Camera Raw useful to get rid of it. I think the 72ED would be a ‘good fit’ on the Celestron Alt-Az mount for visual astronomy, particularly with
its Go-To facility, given its much wider field of view. Equally, it may produce some acceptable short exposure results with my DSLR. As always, thanks for sharing. Have a great Christmas and all the best for the new year 🤝
Hi Ian,
I have a 70ED refractor which often gets used on the Celestron alt az mount.
Here is a video showing typical results
ruclips.net/video/RMLBGTVgprE/видео.html
Thanks for watching and commenting, and best wishes to you for Christmas 🎄
Nice! It's good to see that you don't need a expensive scope to get into astrophotography. There is a lot of chromatic abberration, but as a beginner you shouldn't care too much about that. The result is great and there is always room for improvement.
I agree entirely. I think it's a great starter scope and I used for for about a year to get a grip on the basics of processing etc before getting a 70mm ED scope.
I might try putting the Orion scope on my EQ mount just to see what it does with longer exposures.
Best wishes to you for Christmas 🎄
Purple/blue fringing around planets, not very good but a little around distant stars has a more artistic look to them. They seem more interesting to look at than just pure white pin pricks of light. Anyways, good video. RUclips is made for people like you unlike most of the dross you find on here. Nice choice of music btw and I hit the subscribe button. I have the SW Star Travel 80 and I just love that little scope.
Glad you enjoyed the video, these 80mm scopes are fantastic value for money, and I can credit mine for getting me into astrophotography, which I had previously thought to be a super expensive hobby.
I am glad you like the music, I try to make my videos fairly relaxing to watch. Thank you very much for your sub, your support is very much appreciated 👍
Nice telescope for beginners 🔭
It is a really good scope to get a person started. I think a lot if people who use it keep it as they get more experienced and I gather it gets used as a guide scope if people end up with a large main telescope.
I've popped over to your channel and subscribed to you. I look forward to watching some of your videos this weekend.
Thanks very much for taking the time to watch and comment 🙂👍
Awesome...
Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment 👍 🙂
I had just solved the blue edge of stars, just got the scope 90 degrees up, and lose the lens fighting ring tapping around the lens, and we're done!
That's a very interesting point Bill, I'll have to give it a go. Thanks very much for watching and commenting, I really appreciate it 😊
I have the same gear (Startravel 80) put that scope on your eq3 and lets photo the same target, I’ll send you my data and see what we get?? Could have a few ST-80 owners chip in as well?? Just an idea 💡👍🏼
That sounds like a great idea. After Christmas I get some decent targets appear above the trees at my house (Orion Nebula, Flame and Horsehead, Rossette Nebula).
All would make good targets I think.
@@thecampingastronomer8554 sounds like a plan dude 👍🏼
Hi
Can I ask,
What software programmes do you use to transfer images fro SD card.
I have registacs and sharp cap and one called pipp.i havnt used any.
Hi Alan,
Hope you had a good day yesterday.
To get my images from the SD card onto my computer I have a USB card reader. I plug the card reader into the USB port on my laptop and then put the SD card into the slot on the card reader.
Then I can drag and drop the files onto my desktop.
The software I use at this point depends on what I have been imaging.
What are your images of, and what is the file format of them (eg jpeg, Tiff etc) ?
@@thecampingastronomer8554 iam foreward planning.
If,when we get a clear night,I set my canon 100d,in the 80mm refractor,pointed at Orion nebula,using az GTi tracker,.Take several exposures (with intervelometer use),then I can slot SD card into my laptop,these need processing and stacking?
This is my plan.....😅
In addition,when I download regular snaps from my SD card they are individual as you would expect.How do you get say 50 snaps of a nebula into a stacker.Iam missing something.
Can you take a video and use this,as is equivalent to hundreds of frames?
@@alanrobinson2229 OK, I see where you are at.
So, the first thing is to take 50 or so single exposures. If you can, set your camera to take both Raw files and jpegs as a back up. The format of the raw files on your canon will probably be cr2.
If using a dslr on a deep sky object like the Orion Nebula you take single exposures rather than a video.
You want to use an ISO of about 1600 and whatever exposure length you can get without getting star trails.
After your session you can create a folder on your desktop and copy and paste all of the files from your sd card to this folder using either a pre-existing card slot in your computer or a USB card reader.
You now have 50 or so images in this folder.
You now want to load these into a stacking programme.
You currently have Registax I think. This programme is best suited to processing video files of things like the moon and planets.
For deep sky objects like the Orion Nebula I use a free stacking programme called Sequator.
This is very simple to use and 99% of the time comes up with a decent stacked image.
I then put this image into photoshop to do my processing, although other packages are suitable. I used to use GIMP for this which is a free clone of photoshop.
I did a video on processing for absolute beginners.
I show the whole process from inputing your individual images into Sequator, through the stacking process, and on into Photoshop until my final image is produced.
The link to this is here
ruclips.net/video/_kknmyqEFTc/видео.html
I hope you find this helpful.
@@thecampingastronomer8554 fantastic!
Brilliant step by step guide!
Have great rest of day.
P.s.
Have you seen the "stellina" system,any thoughts?
The mount cost more than the ST80! What is the total price to get set up?
Hello Robert, thanks for watching and commenting. You are correct in that the mount costs more than the scope. This is a normal situation in astrophotography, and its because the mount is the most important part of the system.
The Nexstar SLT mount normally comes with an optical tube, but it does appear occasionally on the internet just as a mount. A quick check this evening showed it selling between £250 and £300. The ST80 optical tube costs about £110, and there are some adapters etc used which total perhaps £50 at most.
This makes the cost of this set up at less than £500, which is very much inside the budget end of the spectrum.
I already had the camera, but if you needed to buy this it is probably worth about £300 for the camera body.
A 2 or 3:1 ratio between mount cost and optical tube cost is pretty standard.
Hope this answers your question, and trust you have a good weekend 👍
@@thecampingastronomer8554 Thanks for the information and quick response. Just got in from looking at the Mars, Jupiter and the Moon. Clear skies.
@@robertsonsid no problem Robert 😊. I was also looking at the moon and Jupiter last night in a nice clear spell.
Is there no lens or Barlow with camera?
Iam so naive,I don't even know how to set a camera to have 7 second exposure.
Hi Alan, your questions are good ones.
Essentially you buy a little adaptor (called a T ring and T adaptor), which attaches to your camera like a lens would. This adaptor then slides into your telescope, so the scope is acting as the cameras lens. These cost about £20 on Amazon and you have to buy the t ring to suit your camera brand (ie a canon type t ring for a Canon dslr etc).
This scope has a 400mm focal length, so it behaves like having a 400mm telephoto lens on your camera.
In terms of setting the exposure time etc on your camera, you need to do this in your cameras manual mode rather than any if the automatic modes. Here you can select exposure time and ISO settings. Finally you use a type of remote shutter release called an intervalometer to automatically take your shots (rather than you physically pressing the shutter button 147 times). You can also programme in the exposure time on the intervalometer. These are quite inexpensive (around £20 on amazon) and worth their weight in gold.
@@thecampingastronomer8554 iam getting there, slowly but surely 👍🌙
@@alanrobinson2229 that's the best way, just making a bit of progress each time. I reckon if you wanted to you could make it a lifetime hobby and still not have done everything there is to do.
@@thecampingastronomer8554 I got the cheap second hand 90mm Meade telescope out last night and for the first time in my life saw the Orion nebula,amazing.
@@alanrobinson2229 I can remember the first time I saw the Orion Nebula. I was made up for about a week afterwards