Non SLR Digital Camera Telescope 'Brackets'?

[wobbly]

Dont really want to invest in an SLR Digital Camera but fancy taking a few images

Have a decent enough budget digital camera (Canon Power Shot A560) and there seems to be a few Camera Adaptors on eBay from around £20 which basically are a bracket which attaches to the scopes eyepiece onto which the camera is mounted against the scopes eyepiece

Are these contraptions any good and worth buying for a beginner like myself?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=110331122318&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=001

[ZOG]

I'd get this one from FLO http://www.firstlightoptics.com/proddetail.php?prod=swinivcamadaptor

At least it's from a reputable dealer and you have some comeback if anything goes wrong.

[scotastro]

The specs for your camera are quite respectable as the ISO can be adjusted up to 1600 and 15s is adequate for longer exposure images. The Moon only neds a short exposure, but for fainter objects the longer the exposure the better.

The clamp Zog suggested works fine and is easy to adjust.

You did not mention the type of scope you have - does it have motor drives?

Mike

[wobbly]

I'd get this one from FLO http://www.firstlightoptics.com/proddetail.php?prod=swinivcamadaptor

At least it's from a reputable dealer and you have some comeback if anything goes wrong.

Brilliant, had a look at Steve's site and couldnt find it, already 'scratched' the pad and bought from FLO to support their sponsorship of the forum, will buy this one from FLO!

Thanks for the info on my Camera too, current scope is a LIDL Bresser Skymax only bought it last weekend as my first ever scope but already upgraded, just bought a used Helios Achromatic Refractor 6" which looks very similar to the Skywatcher Startravel 150EQ, collect it tonight hopefully and will quickly stick it in the back room where the Bresser is and hope the wife doesnt notice the difference and that I have bought another scope

Both mounts are manual EQ, so no motors (yet!)

Dave

[ZOG]

will quickly stick it in the back room where the Bresser is and hope the wife doesnt notice the difference and that I have bought another scope

I hate to burst your bubble, but my experience of wives is that they can smell a new purchase from a mile away and will actively seek it out and decide which level of grief you will be subjected to. (grief with wives is like vat on purchases, you may try to avoid it but it will catch you up in the end) :mrgreen:

[dph1nm]

Check out the free firmware add-on CHDK. You can get 60sec exposures, RAW format, in-camera dark frame subtraction and many other goodies for the A560 with this.

NigelM

[wobbly]

will quickly stick it in the back room where the Bresser is and hope the wife doesnt notice the difference and that I have bought another scope

I hate to burst your bubble, but my experience of wives is that they can smell a new purchase from a mile away and will actively seek it out and decide which level of grief you will be subjected to. (grief with wives is like vat on purchases, you may try to avoid it but it will catch you up in the end) :mrgreen:

Aye I know, been married 36 years and never got away with it yet, keep trying though

Never realised a non golfing wife could learn so much about golf clubs and their prices just by looking in my golf bag now and again

[PaulG]

:laughing3: :laughing3: :laughing3: :laughing3: :laughing3: :laughing3: 70mm to a 150mm hope the wife doesnt notice ......priceless.

Paul

[Psychobilly]

could always say you gave it a rub down with some via...

[wobbly]

Check out the free firmware add-on CHDK. You can get 60sec exposures, RAW format, in-camera dark frame subtraction and many other goodies for the A560 with this.

NigelM

Many thanks, will try and upload the firmware onto the camera!

By the way, in reply to the other two replies, as the wife is a short sighted pharmacist (true!) I have a better chance of just hoping she doesnt notice the change in scope than telling her I massaged it with viagra :mrgreen: