Couple weeks looking at Venus

[Damien2904]

Hi all,

I’m pretty new to astrophotography...well really new, only had my telescope (Celestron 127EQ) for 3 weeks. I’ve been looking at Venus for a couple weeks now and wanted to share my little journey photographing it.
I started by linking my iPhone up to the telescope using an adaptor. The below photo is a collage of how I progressed over my first week, have to say after packing up every night and comparing that nights photos to the night before, it was so exciting as I could see I was getting slightly better day by day. However I soon worked out that the iPhone wasn’t much use for blocking out the brightness or focusing.

I then purchased a T-Ring & T-adaptor to link up my Nikon D3200 to the telescope. I must add that I’m not very clued up with the camera neither, it’s one of those things I’ve had for years but never really given much time, so I had to give myself a YouTube crash course on aperture/shutter speed/ISO...🤯🤯

Night before last I took these shots below...

These were taken with a 2x Barlow lens...shutter at 3200 & ISO 800. I couldn’t quite work out how to / if I can incorporate the 20mm or 4mm lens that came with the telescope....would they make any difference?

Any suggestions on how I can improve the sharpness and get a little closer would be great. 😁