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JL Shipley July 7th, 2004 10:08 AM

Astrophotography
 
Has anyone coupled a GL2 to a telescope? Nikon made a "T-mount" that I used for my Meade LX200 (2500 mm), but I haven't found anything like that for Canon. I don't even know if the ccd chips would function...but, imagine!
As a new GL2 owner, I'm sure glad I found this forum.
Thanks!

Ken Tanaka July 7th, 2004 10:30 AM

Welcome JL,

That's an excellent question, one that I've been waiting to see.

I can't recall ever seeing a video camera being directly used to record celestial, hight sky, observations. Frankly, I don't think they would fare well. Their sensors (ccd's) are just too small and not really sensitive enough (within a 30 frames/sec. environment) to record the dim objects and fields.

So it's probably not worth the effort to search for such a mount for a GL2.


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