Starting to digiscope- Basic requirements

[Sirius Starwatcher]

Help please, I would like to take some photos of the planets etc What would be the minimum amount of kit I would need to accomplish basic pictures of the solar system.im on a tight budget as my main interest is observing but would like to dip my toes into photos

[Kropster]

Maybe start with a cheap webcam? X-Box cam is v cheap and seems popular.

[RichM63]

You did say 'minimum'!

Here ya go, my first foray into this expensive sport.

Surprisingly I did get a full Moon.

Camera Point n Shoot Pentax, Binoculars 20x80, mount lightweight plastic pan/tilt.

Note the 'classy' addition of black insulation tape to give it that 'Pro' look.

This item is still in my Astrobox. although it did see use over the Summer in its usual setting.

[ronin]

The usual scope for planetary imaging is an SCT or Mak goto/tracking and a webcam.

Find planet, swap eyepiece for webcam, track planet to get a video (webcam needs attaching to a laptop), process the .avi file.

As planets are bright many will put a 2x or 3x barlow in the optics to obtain a bigger image of the planet on the webcam..

What you can get with a 200P - I assume Dobsonian, I do not know, simply because tracking the object so that it remains reasonably central appears to be a requitrement of the processing software.