RaspberryJamBerlin

Thanks for the responses peeps, 

Noted on the video front and I am interested in how stacking works... 

In terms of the lenses I take off the C-mount lens and essentially smoosh the camera into the eye piece hole just without the eye piece itself... That I am wondering is if I did have some sort of glass and lens between the telescope and camera could I get a better picture (I am thinking iPhone pressed on the eye piece kinda thing

Hello peeps yeah it was really cool myself and my son had so much fun! Shame it was cloudy but it was great to meet up!

Hey peeps I wanted to ask some question about the Raspberry Pi and Astrophotography... For those that don't know in a nutshell Raspberry Pi is a single board computer that is the size of a credit card (some models are smaller) and essentially are tiny diy computers. They also have Cameras that you can connect and essentially convert your Raspberry Pi into its own configurable camera, attached that to a telescope: astrophotography inbound.

I'll layout what I got and what I want to achieve in some short points

Gear:

• Raspberry Pi - Picamera HQ 12MP Camera with detachable lenses (Rolling Shutter)
• Celestron AstroMaster LT 76AZ (D=76mm F=700mm f/9) Model #31036
• 3d Printed converter that allows me to attached the sensor to the telescope instead of the eyepiece

Location:

• Berlin Germany but at the outskirts to getting out of the city is a short hop and a skip

Goals:

• I'll be honest I am totally new to astronomy and the telescope is my sons so I am not entirely sure what to expect
• I would like to try and photograph the night sky - Star field pictures
• Photograph the moon and any other stellar bodies the gear allows
• Finally it's not about getting stunning pictures but rather getting the best out of what I have and having fun doing it.

I know what I have is not the best but I need to figure out if there is anything I can do to improve the quality in the images and use the telescope to its potential (which I have no clue how good it can perform)

Attached is a picture - an example of what the Raspberry Pi can take using the Celestron (taking photos of the moon) its about 12 shots stitched together using photoshop image merge (nothing fancy) 

I am one the new members 😉 yeah when we left the moon started to peak out, still cloudy but was at least something to look at