Playtime!

[Ambermile]

OK - so I may just start taking some pics again Just before Christmas I acquired a t thread > Nikon adapter and promptly forgot about it (I do that alot). Whilst trying to keep out of the way I decided to drop the Nikon 24-120 zoom on the Artemis and see what happened. Cool - got infinity focus straight away! So then I next dug out the 0.5 reducer thingie and screwed that to the front of the lens as well. Even better - focus point stayed the same!

What's the fuss I hear you ask? Well, I'm getting about the same FOV on the ICX285 chip as I would with an SLR and a 50mm lens. Think about it... That's going to mean some serious widefield imaging with no nasty dSLR side effects like amp glow, compression artefacts, etc.

Here's the FOV from the window with the above setup... 50% crop as it was unbinned

Also one without the reducer.

[SteelRat]

Hope the weather clears soon so we can see some WIDE :shock: ASTRO results from that Arthur

[geppetto]

Ooooh.. that's going to be a winner Arthur 8)

[Ambermile]

I think it's going to be good too, we have Virgo rising now so *loads* stuff to image!

Arthur

[mark RD]

Very cool Idear look forward to the results of a clear night on that one

Mark