Pushing the limits of my afocal set up

[geppetto]

Got set up ready for some Toucam shots of the moon when it gets a bit darker.

Decided to have a play with trying a 2x barlow on the end of my Nikon 5400

with a 40mm eyepiece afocal in the 200mm F6 reflector.

These are a couple with the camera set at full optical zoom through the above setup.

Never got very satisfactory results using shorter focal length eyepieces so these results

have pleased me no end given it's still a bright sky

[Kain]

they are fantastic Phil!

Do you hand hold the camrea, or have you got a thingy mabob for it

Kain

[Jamie]

Very nice indeed Philip.

I hope you don't mind but i stitched these two images together and gave them a wee tweak.

Let me know what you think.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

I'm not surprised that ou're pleased with those Phil. Magic stuff.

Captain Chaos

[geppetto]

Thanks guys

Kain, the camera's held by a thingy mabob, my hands are too shakey to take

hand held shots.

Nice tweak Jamie, thanks

Just after I posted them, I thougt I should have joined them up.

Really pleased with this, it's giving me almost Toucam magnification but with

less fuss 8)

[Jamie]

Aw come on Philip its all the fuss thats all the fun.....

[Caz]

Great stuff Phil!!... 8)

Nicely done Jamie..

[barkis]

Good Pictures, good tweak, good teamwork. Phil/Jamie.

Ron.

[dazza1639]

Stunning really great images.

Darren

[SteelRat]

Great stuff 8)

[blinky]

I have the same setup and just discovered last week that a 40mm is by far the best EP for it. I had been using a 30mm till that point.

[geppetto]

I have the same setup and just discovered last week that a 40mm is by far the best EP for it

Blinky

It is, I've tried quite a few but always come back to the 40mm.

I think the difference is (with my kit) that the 40mm has it's lens right at the top of the

eyepiece which suits the Nikon.

In a 32mm I have, the lens is a good 4mm or more lower and the spacing between this and the Nikon's

lens causes problems.

[moondog]

Very very good afocal shots Phil !

MD