Confessions of a Frustrated Amateur Astronomer

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Entries for the ‘New gear’ Category

Finally purchased my own DSLR camera

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 [...]

New toy, the digi-t adapter

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 [...]

Time to accessorize!

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 [...]

  

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