Something about a cheap digital camera connecting to a telescope?

simple gadget. The front has a U shaped joint that fits around your eyepiece. The round wheel at the back has a screw that fits into the mount hole on the bottom of your camera. You then slide the camera forward/backward to match the eye relief of your telescope, this allows the camera to see the same thing as your eye sees through the eyepiece. Depending upon whether your camera has a cable release, you may have to use "self portrait" mode (to eliminate shaking once the button to shoot a picture is depressed).

the link below shows a basic rig for cameras with the standard mount hole on the bottom of most cameras.

I strongly suggest that the the camera you use have the following:

1. AC power source, batteries go quickly.

2. Large memory card, you find yourself taking a lot of pictures.

3. Cable release so that you don't have to touch the camera for imaging.

i might propose paying for a profeesional point digicam like the Canon 5D Mark II. Bulb mode is the place you employ a distant shutter cable to 'lock' the shutter open, this sort you need to use totally customisable shutter cases. there's a mass of upload-ons and so on for permitting you to apply the digicam with a telescope and so on. purchase the superb high quality physique which you will locate the money for. it may pay you returned plenty in the time-honored of imagery you will get. The 5D Mark II has superb high quality at intense ISO settings that's what you will need for evening photos

"Taking the lense off" I hope means removing the lense from an SLR. It's called astrophotography.