Derek Astro
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Hi Michael
Not one to be beaten, I followed your dimensions to get focus but still got a blank white screen when using the Live View Option. However picking up on your point about using the view finder at the back of the camera EUREKA I can now take photographs, through the telescope, not perfectly focused, but can be worked at. It would appear the Live View shooting option cannot be used as I originally intended. Thanks for getting me on right road.
Derek
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Thankyou for responding to my post. The camera is attached to the telescope by a 1.25 inch T mount. I tried getting focus by using the live view option on the camera and get focus in the normal way. This did not work so I then tried manually holding the camera and move it backwards anf forwards in line with the lens tube to try and get some sort of picture to determine if I needed an extension tube and what length it shoud be. I still could not get any picture. This was all carried in daylight looking out of a window at objects at least 0.5 of a mile away. I would have expected some sort of picture on the camera screen. Could there be an issue with the camera settings, but there is no problem when viewing the camera screen when a normal camera lens is fitted?
Attached are two pictures, one showing the camera attached to the telescope, the other shows the white camera screen with no sign of any features showing.
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I have a Skywatcher Startravel 102 AZ3 telescope and want to use it along with a Canon 600d camera . All the pictures look so simple when they are attached to oneanother, but after a number of frustrating days I find that I have been unable to get any sort of picture on the camera's screen, all I get is a blank screen. I have tried getting a picture of surrounding trees etc with no success. I have tried a number of combinations between the telescope and camera with no success. I guess I am making a very simple error and would welcome any advice. Thankyou.
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Hi Michael
Thank you for your help. I followed your instructions and YES it works, with Live View shooting. I now have a fully operating system, just want some clear nights now. Thank you again.
Derek