Note: images by Curt.
LX3 - GALILEOSCOPE
An affordable (20$) digiscope solution if you like to be ready for the International Year of Astronomy 2009. You can have more info at galileoscope.org
Note: images by Curt.
Note: images by Curt.
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How is it attatched to the LX3? Does it need some extra converters beside the telescope?
I used a 45 to 52mm adapter tube and a 52mm threaded F-adapter.
This is a very flexible setup and I've mounted the camera on binoculars and microscopes!
I want to stress that the Galileoscope is not a practical digiscope.
**Focus is difficult/awkward with the camera mounted
**Vignettes the sides of the frame (not important photographing the moon in a dark sky but my frog shots had to be cropped)
On the other hand.....
Putting together the kit is fun and educational (if you have any 'geek' quotient at all)
It is a very good little scope for very little money (now $20). Galileo would have loved an achromatic doublet!
If you post any of this please include the link to Galileoscope
https://www.galileoscope.org/gs/
The scope was a great learning experience and got me more interested in optics.
I teach photography and have now added a little hands on optics into the curriculum.
It's been great cheap fun!
More details please! The only set up I've seen is adapter tube, T ring adapter, T ring eyepiece/barlow (all of which costs significantly more than $20!). What is an F adapter? Are you using an eyepiece/barlow? Can you provide a product link for the adapters? Thanks!
If you look on the photo you can see the adapters.
I'm not sure where I got them but if you look around you can find them. I went on ebay and found some posted below.
I used an adapter tube 45-52mm because there are lots of 52mm nonPanasonic lenses out there; tele, wide, even fisheye.
Here's a 45-52mm adapter on ebay for $3.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270317664545&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_1667wt_787
Then I got an F-adapter that can "clamp" the camera onto all kinds of viewfinders. Here's one on ebay for $31 maybe you can find a cheaper one if you look around.
http://cgi.ebay.com/F-adapter-for-Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-FZ7-FZ8-NEW_W0QQitemZ390095613606QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CamerasPhoto_CameraAccessories_CameraLensesFilters_JN?hash=item5ad382aea6&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1262#ht_2808wt_983
If you have a second tripod you could just put the camera right in front of the telescope eyepiece without any adapters. But as I said in an earlier post the Galileoscope can do digiscope but it's not very easy. Like the dog that walks on it's hind legs...it's not that it does it well but that it does it at all!
That's great, thanks! I'll definitely pick up that adapter tube—can't go wrong at that price.
Indeed, neither item is for serious digiscoping, so it's not worth spending much money on connecting them, but if I can get a cheap F adapter it might be fun to try. I did try a contraption that clamps the camera in front of the eyepiece, but it was too fiddly getting the camera aligned, even in daylight, and the Galileoscope is fiddly enough as it is!
i hv facing trouble after order that Galileoscope..since Sept09,, untill now i still have not receivedt the stock...
While i send email to them, what they hv replied is asking me to call them. OMG.. if i have to call them, it cost me more than i pay for the scope... it is really not a friendly services. i still do not know that whether i will received it or not...
whoaw! I'm gonna get this one for myself. wooooooooot! Too bad, orders after November 5 may not be delivered until January 2010. :(
hi
i just ordered a galileiscope (they are backlogged until Jan-Feb !
i already have the panasonic lens adapter (with the 46mm filter thread at the far end).
does that F-adapter screw onto that 46mm thread ???
it is a filter thread so it's an "inside" thread. i also have a 46-52mms stepping ring to use 52mm filters, but again that has an inside thread at the filter end.
Does anyone know if we can take a long exposure photograph, more than 1 minute? (for exaple 15 min in a dark sky)... Thanks!
Aniol from Barcelona.
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