More AP Questions

[MND]

I know, I know, I'm all questions. Hope it doesn't wear thin anytime soon!

I'm keen to get going with some AP and want to start off easy utilising what I have if I can.

Would I be able to use a DSLR with my C9.25 to take some planet/moon shots on the CG5 unguided? I know it won't be great but I just want to get going and can't for the life of me decide what to buy or which way to go.

I was thinking along the lines of either a Canon 600D from Cheap Astro, attached to the C9.25 or something like;

http://www.digitalrev.com/product/canon-eos-600d-18-55ii/MTAwMjIxMQ_A_A

and use the 55-250mm lens piggyback on top of the C9.25

I'm hoping that this would be an easy way in rather than buying a whole new shooting match with CCD, scope, mount, laptop, guider etc etc. I know I'll probably go down that route eventually, slippery slope and all that.

TIA

[Tinker1947]

Guiding would help and if you use the finder scope just a case of a CCD, i use a Lodestar but there are good types that are cheaper, my 600D came from cheap astro, you won't go wrong there......I assume your mount is a EQ type with some motors.......

[Owmuchonomy]

I know, I know, I'm all questions. Hope it doesn't wear thin anytime soon!

I'm keen to get going with some AP and want to start off easy utilising what I have if I can.

Would I be able to use a DSLR with my C9.25 to take some planet/moon shots on the CG5 unguided? I know it won't be great but I just want to get going and can't for the life of me decide what to buy or which way to go.

I was thinking along the lines of either a Canon 600D from Cheap Astro, attached to the C9.25 or something like;

http://www.digitalrev.com/product/canon-eos-600d-18-55ii/MTAwMjIxMQ_A_A

and use the 55-250mm lens piggyback on top of the C9.25

I'm hoping that this would be an easy way in rather than buying a whole new shooting match with CCD, scope, mount, laptop, guider etc etc. I know I'll probably go down that route eventually, slippery slope and all that.

TIA

I have just tried this. I have a 60D on my SCT 9.25. You don't need guiding just tracking. Jupiter's rotation is so fast you have to use less than 2 minutes of video. So, I use movie crop mode, EP projection through a 25mm and take 6000 frames. Prepare in PIPP and stack in Registax. You can use a 600D but it doesn't have true crop mode so use Backyard EOS instead and film in 5x mode to get your image scale. First ever image below.

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