Digiscoping

[StarryEyes]

Has anyone ever heard of this? I only heard of it recently from a friend. To me it just looks and sounds the same as Afocal imaging people tend to use it for photographing birds etc.

[Photosbykev]

it's an old technique which can produce some good results BUT the success rate is extremely low as the technique requires a lot of time to align the scope on the target, manually focus, then put the camera to the scope and take a relatively long exposure.

It is mainly used by bird watchers/twitchers for capturing a record of the rarer birds.

[tbird]

This may be of interest AstronomyAndNatureTV's Channel - YouTube

[kharga]

These were digiscoped! Nikon 885 on Kowa 885 spotting scope. You attach the camera to the scope then focus the scope using the camera screen. An APO/HD scope is best because of the tighter control of colour fringing.