CapturingNebula without star tracker or a dslr telescope

[Dhanan]

I have an astromaster 130eq. I want image the pleiades with my telescope. I usually use my phone to capture planets which works pretty well, but i want to capture some nebulae with it. I dont have a star tracker so can someone help me out with it..

 

[vlaiv]

If you are limited in budget that you have, you can try following:

- You could try adding DIY tracking motor to your EQ mount.

- You could try to manually track.

In fact, given that Pleiades are quite wide target, you could try to get a bit better finder scope than the one that you get with telescope - for example this one:

https://www.svbony.com/sv165-mini-guider-scope/

or perhaps something like this:

https://www.svbony.com/sv28-spotting-scope/#F9308B-W2546A

Then you mount that small scope on your main scope and attach mobile phone to it. You will image with small scope and use astromaster 130 as your guide scope. You put high power eyepiece in your astromaster 130 and then when you start exposure - you manually move scope slowly so that stars stay in the same place in eyepiece.

 

 

[Dhanan]

Thanks!