Although the Nikon F mount has been the same since 1958, that is only true for things like T-rings that have no aperture coupling. They've been thrown to the dirt 3 times now, forcing them to buy new lenses. SonnyE says: 'As far as I know, Nikon has never changed their mounting for their lenses. He's the one who made me want to move from visual astronomy to astrophotography.

I hope to get some widefield images too with the lens I'll be using.Īnd thanks for recommending these videos! I've been watching Trevor Jones from AstroBackyard since february. Yes, finding the Ring Nebula can be a difficult task. Because he has it.Īnd while you're there, more dream sauce: Įdited by SonnyE, 07 September 2020 - 08:38 PM. LOL!īut I encourage him to continue and try with his D5300. If I hadn't known what to look for I might have given up looking for it long enough to find it. I used the combo to image the Ring Nebula. In my real world experience, with my Orion ED80T CF, putting my Nikon on my telescope gave me very wide field images. Which incidentally allows the telescope to accept any Nikon camera. Or adaptumakaters.īut for Astro work, all that's needed is an adapter to mount the D5300 onto the telescope. So the oldest lenses, will still work on the newer cameras. If I had darker skies, I'd use the empty spot the most, and let the matrix do it's job.Īsk the seller, but unlike Canon, Nikon does not have 2 kinds of lenses that take up different amounts of space, as far as I know.Īs far as I know, Nikon has never changed their mounting for their lenses. The other night I brought up filter position 8, a 13% transmission Moon filter.īut reality is, I almost never use anything but the Pollution filter. And an Baader HA7nm to bring out the red nebula I like to image. Moon and Sky Glow- to subdue my light pollution. I have an 8 position filter wheel, and I use 3 positions. You may, like I did, find you don't have to follow the herd. Why do you think you have to be able to use filters? Using an adapted DSLR, while it works, and I've done it, an Astro camera is made for the task. He sent the camera, it was an instant success, and the rest is history.Īstro cameras have no moving parts, they are computer controlled. I explained I would be apt to want to buy it from him if it worked out. And I made the mistake of getting an Orion G3.Īfter a couple of years of absolute misery trying to get pictures out of it, a Friend approached me with the idea of loaning me an Atik Infinity OSC. So the best answer, for me, was to get a dedicated astro camera. (It had some 83,000 shutter operations already. As I mined down to my final wish lists, I decided I would simply beat my D3300 to death even faster if I started using it for AP.

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