Found my astronomy binoculars’ tripod adapter so my balcony observatory capability just went up a notch (it’s too big and heavy at 70mm to use comfortably in handheld mode for long). Next stop iPhone astro photos. Sample turned out ok. Was struggling to do this without tripod.
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Just ordered a phone adapter that should work for both binoculars and telescope but best I could do with my telescope so far is this crappy moonshot
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This is with my newly acquired 4.5’ Newtonian. My goal is to get good enough to get Mars photos at opposition (October) and Saturn/Jupiter grand conjunction in December.
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Next experiment after iPhone will likely be photos with my Canon EOS if this damn adapter lens becomes available again by then celestron.com/products/unive
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If not, Plan B is a cheapie astrocamera. This one is just $59 but has good reviews amazon.com/SVBONY-SV105-T
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Experiments continued. iPhone at 10x software zoom, iPhone at 1x, binoculars at 15x, iPhone at 2x, binoculars at 15x (so 30x effectively?)
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