Imaging

[Digi-Steve]

I wonder what's best to get. A CCD or a modded webcam. I allready have a Canon 50D but this morning I tried to take a picture of venus and all I see is a tiny dot untill I completly zoom in on the picture. Then I can see that this dot is venus. I wanna take some better pictures of the planets.

steve

[rowan46]

venus is a tough one to get details on. what scope and mount do you have? people will have more info to advise you then

[Pete Presland]

depends how much you want to spend ? you can get going with a webcam + nose piece for as little as £30

Cheap Philips SPC880 webcam - 49269 - discounts & offers

this place sells the webcams for under £10 there is plenty of info on this forum about the software upgrade and fitting a nosepiece.

this set up is ideal for planetary images, deep sky requires a further long exposure mod to the webcam or a dslr or dedicated ccd camera both being quite a bit more than £30

[Pete Presland]

check this set of images by dave smith on here from last year shows you what can be done !

http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-planetary/120512-venus-project-continued.html

[Dave]

depends how much you want to spend ? you can get going with a webcam + nose piece for as little as £30

Cheap Philips SPC880 webcam - 49269 - discounts & offers

this place sells the webcams for under £10 there is plenty of info on this forum about the software upgrade and fitting a nosepiece.

this set up is ideal for planetary images, deep sky requires a further long exposure mod to the webcam or a dslr or dedicated ccd camera both being quite a bit more than £30

Yes, I'd second that webcam.

The small chip size helps reveal more detail.

And you cannot argue with the cost.

Dave