Nikon Astro-mod in UK?

[parallaxerr]

Hi all,

Does anyone know of an astro-mod service for Nikons in the UK?

Astronomiser no longer do Nikon and the only other service I can find is Lifepixel in the US.

 

Cheers

[laser_jock99]

How about a DIY conversion?

https://www.lifepixel.com/tutorials/infrared-diy-tutorials

Took me about 30 minutes to convert an old Canon 40D to 'full spectrum'.

 

[parallaxerr]

I saw the tutorial and thought "nope, that's not for me". I'm handy enough at soldering but the solder points look very small and the ribbon cables all too easy to damage - and there's so many of them!

I wouldn't mind if I had a back up camera but if it all went South, I'd be stuffed!

[Luter68]

Hi Parallaxerr,

I am looking exactly for the same thing, with no success. 

Also for me, diy is not an option.

did you find anything at the end? Anybody in Europe?

 

 

[parallaxerr]

Hi Luter, I'll drop you a pm

[newbie alert]

I'm sure that these do Nikon..

http://advancedcameraservices.co.uk/

[parallaxerr]

42 minutes ago, newbie alert said:

I'm sure that these do Nikon..

http://advancedcameraservices.co.uk/

Yep, they do. £350 for a 3 week turn around. They don't do an astro specific mod, i.e 700nm shortpass, they do full spectrum which is no problem with a UV/IR block filter.

[Luter68]

Indeed, on the Advanced Camera Services web site, I only see full spectrum conversion.

I would prefer to have in a UV-IR cut filter (like the Baader one) to make things easier with other filters (e.g., some CLS filters do not have an IR cut).

In the meanwhile, I found the Italian equivalent (perhaps more precisely seems the italian branch) of Teleskop-express (the german one offers modifications for Canons only).

They offer modification for the D5100:

http://www.teleskop-express.it/servizi-ts-italia/2888-modifica-astronomy-nikon-super-uv-ir-cut-e-brt-astronomy-expert.html

Pricing seems reasonable to me. The filter they use is not a baader one but an unspecified one of which they show the transmission curve.

The pages are in italian only but that is ok for me.

Hopefully, they know what they are doing.....

Clear skies