Imaging with a skyliner 250px?

[John Mckay]

Hi all, can you give me some advice of what i should buy to take some pictures with my scope? I know it might not be the ideal scope for imaging but i want to give it a go. What basics should i be looking at first? Thanks.

[John]

I managed to do some simple planetary and lunar imaging with a dobsonian a while back. I used a Toucam Pro with a 1.25" nosepiece. The Celestron Neximage or even the Meade LPI will achieve similar results I guess. Tracking is a pain though because these devices are the equivilent of using a 4mm-5mm eyepiece so getting the object into the field of view, focussing it and tracking it for long enough to produce a few hundred frames of AVI is challenging. It can be done though.

[brantuk]

A webcam is a good idea for your your scope (is it the auto?). You should get some half reasonable short exposure results with the moon and planets. Long exposure though is best with an equatorial mount.

Cheers.