With either a cell camera or digital camera ?

Would like to hear about your rig
Cam /mount / scope.
Thanks in advance

You mean like a colonoscopy???

I had to look up the word. It refers to attaching a spotting scope or a telescope to a digital camera, making a super-long telephoto lens. And no, I'm not doing it (I don't have a spotting scope or an astronomical telescope).

flashguy

It's popular with moon watchers, bird watchers, plane spotters.

For those interested there are more than a few You tubes on the practice

Man, I want those photons to have to work. Like to travel a few 100,000 light years before it hits my retina; not coming from a tv/computer screen. Authenticity baby!

I don't understand.
The pics you take with phones or dig cams can be printed on to paper

My spotter is not setup to use a "Phone Skope" but I do know some photographers and shooters who do use them to take pictures and videos with their phones with their spotting scopes at high magnification.

Not that complicated with the right adapter.

I have the Celestron NEXYZ 3-AXIS UNIVERSAL SMARTPHONE ADAPTER for my spotting scope and 9.25” Edge HD scope. Takes a bit of tinkering to get alignment. Results are good, but only as good as your optics. I can see differences between some of the eye pieces I have with edge distortion.

Overall B+ for what I’ve got set up and not having the expense of other equipment.

An example of just holding the phone to the eyepiece of the spotting scope and capturing the image:





The picture is of the peak of Mt. Elbert in Colorado from about 7 miles. The nearly invisible tiny black dot on the ridgeline near the center of the image is a hiker.

I always assumed that “digiscoping” just meant using a digital camera to photograph or view something through a telescope of some sort. I’d like to do that with my real cameras and best spotting scope, but was never able to find a proper adapter.

I have quite a bit of experience in digiscoping. I use a Kowa TSN- 82SV and a Nikon D7500, using the afocal adapter from Kowa. It's one of the reasons I like Kowas because they have all the parts for digiscoping.

I am not at a computer right now, so I'll keep this short. I can do videos and stills with that setup. You need a good tripod and a good understanding of photography and optics. Not deep knowledge, but know enough about exposure and related stuff.

Ask questions and I will try to answer them and provide more details on my setup.

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I use a Kowa TSN- 82SV and a Nikon D7500, using the afocal adapter from Kowa. It's one of the reasons I like Kowas because they have all the parts for digiscoping.

I have the Kowa TSN-773 and the afocal adapter. I agree with NikonUser--Kowa accessories are really well made for digiscoping. The Kowa scopes were top-rated at the last competitive shoot-out done by the Cornell Ornithology Lab.

I would suggest replying to NikonUser as he has more experience than I do.

I have a Celestron #52270 F5 scope , a Motorola G7 phone ,
and a Sony W800 pocket camera.

It's not looking like I can get just one clamp on adapter .
The scope has been great for bird watching and moon viewing.

I have a Meade etx90 that I would like to do something like this ... and wanting to get a 45 or 90 deg erecting prism.

I'm just guessing, but there would be center to edge falloff as to focus. Keep thing in the middle and you should have good results.

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center to edge falloff as to focus

Like spherical aberration?

my first thought based on the thread title was alien abduction. What a disappointment.

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center to edge falloff as to focus

Like spherical aberration?

Yes. Photo lenses have multiple internal lenses, some of which move with others or stay stationary. Aside from how they are grounded (purposes) these tense groups are specific to the total lens function. A micro/macro is designed to have maxim center to edge sharpness. (this is why reversing lenses to use a macros can not achieve the same results as a macro) Wide angles have less. Telephotos for greater distances, but there is falloff. That's about the best I can do - a little rusty on my optics science. Cheers.