Thanks, Darren and John. Yes, Darren, I meant eyepiece tube. I have never tried it with the eyepiece still in the light path. I had an adapter for my Sportmatic years ago, but that won't work in the DSLRs, even if I could find it ...
Thanks for the leads. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Does anyone know where I can obtain an adapter to hook a Pentax DSLR >> to a telescope eyepiece? > > You say eyepiece, but do you mean eyepiece tube? > If the eyepiece is in the light path then you are doing "eyepiece > projection" astrophotography. Pieces needed are here: > http://www.astronomysource.com/2011/10/13/eyepiece-projection/ > > If the eyepiece is not in the path and you are attaching the camera in > *the place* of the eyepiece, you are doing "prime focus" > astrophotography. > > Lots of places to buy the stuff for both, but I think I'll point you > here: http://www.telescopeadapters.com/ > > > > -- > "The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's > own, is to get over the confusion > by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is > the other way around." > > -Thomas Moore, "Original Self" > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
