Can a laptop be connected to a Skywatcher Dobsonian? Help please!

[HollyAnn]

I'm seeing some amazing sites through my telescope, and I'm wondering if I could capture a few or record them some how on a laptop, anyone know if it's possible with a dobsonian telescope? thanks!

[Cornelius Varley]

Which version of the mount, Skyliner, Autotrack or Goto.

Peter

[HollyAnn]

It's a skyliner, with a dobsonian skywatcher telescope mounted ontop.

[JamesF]

With the right webcam you should be able to do some lunar/solar/planetary imaging I'd have thought. For deep sky imaging though it's really desirable to have a decent equatorial mount.

Even planetary imaging with a dob has some problems because the target will rotate relative to the scope over time, but I'm sure there are people on SGL who have done it.

James

[Cornelius Varley]

The non motorised mount could allow you short exposures with a webcam for lunar and planetary imaging, the target will drift out of the field of view fairly quickly ghthou. DSO imaging requires a mount that can track the movement of the stars across the sky in an arc to compensate for field rotation, dobsonian mount can't do this.

Peter