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Hi,

I'm looking for some starter help with my dslr  - Sony alpha 37.

I have had my Skywatcher 200p for a few months now and really enjoying it - massive improvement on my shop bought 4". I've just bought a t-ring adapter and want to attach the camera to my scope and start taking some images. I don't (as yet) have any motor tracking , so appreciate that I am  limited to the moon (and maybe some of the brighter planets?)

What I really after is some advice on the settings for the camera - ISO, shutter speed, aperture , white balance?

Any info/advice much appreciated. I am right at the start of my foray into imaging and hopefully some reasonable lunar results will encourage me into further upgrades (as funds allow).

Thanks

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Hello,

Without tracking or a equatorial mount you will be very limited to solar system objects. With the moon you can use ISO400-ISO800, what you want to aim for is a shutter speed of atleats 1/100th. Aperture is not controllable, since that's determined by your 200p and white balance should be set to "Daylight".

The sun can be photographed in a similar way... WITH A SOLAR FILM or FILTER... without a filter you will fry your sensor.

For planetary images you might want to push you ISO to ISO 1600 and try for a shutter of 1/30-1/50... the short exposures are to counter the movement of the object across the FOV and capture the object before motion blur.

Don't expect too much in planetary detail with a DSLR but try taking as many shots as you can, then use RegiStax to stack them... you will improve your image quality.

Hope this get you started,

MG

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Thanks MG, just what I was looking for to get started. Motion control is definitely on the list, but I need some new eyepieces first - it seems like this new hobby is going to be a long and expensive road, but will worth it :)

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