I have been mulling over a new camera since I borrowed the Canon XTi and took some photos at the dark site. It was a tough decision since this will be the most expensive item I’ve purchase so far for this hobby. Finally, Amazon dropped their prices on the Canon XSi and I decided it [...]
After the colossal failure of the webcam experiment, I looked for a easier astrophotography alternative. All the pictures I took so far uses the afocal method. Afocal is nothing more than holding a camera up to the eye piece where your eye should be and taking a picture. Its the crudest form of astrophotography but [...]
Getting yourself a telescope is just the start, there are mountains of accessories you can buy for the thing. For me, I need to fill in the gaps in my eye piece collection. So far I have the following eye pieces:
25mm (48x)
10mm (120x)
Those are pretty low power eye pieces. I would like to get another [...]