I have a Meade Refracting Telescope and I have a Nikon D-50 camera.
I would love to take pictures of Moon, etc as seen in my telescope using my camera.
What is the best way to do that?
Answer
There's a few different ways to do this. It sounds like you're most interested in afocal or prime focus methods though.
Afocal photography is putting the camera up to the eyepiece and taking a picture through the eyepiece. The advantage here is that you get the magnification of the eyepiece, but you lose some quality due to the extra glass the eye piece imparts.
Prime focus photography is where you'll take the eyepiece out and attach the camera with a t ring adapter and a camera to telescope adapter. The second is basically a eyepiece that a generic t ring thread screws on. The t ring is a standard thread on one side and a special F mount (for you) on the other side. Prime focus methods won't get you super high magnifications, but will get you clearer pictures.
There's one problem you'll have with both of these. The earth is moving. Yup, spinning around and around. And while the sky doesn't look like its moving fast, when you try to take a largely magnified picture of it, it is. To get reasonable pictures with astrophotography you either need to do a much larger field of view than going through your telescope - or get tracking for your telescope/camera.
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