I've just got my first reflector telescope today. when I look through it, I see a black spot in the middle. can anyone tell me I am suppose to be seeing this because its blocking a third of my view.
I posted what I see on this site. I did my best to take the picture with a digital camera so sorry if the image is messed up.
That "black spot" is actually the secondary mirror for your telescope. It has to be there. If you focus your telescope properly on the stars, you won't notice it at all.
Make A Telescope For Kids Anyone know the title of this 80's teen movie?
Alright, I have been wracking my brain about this movie for weeks and can't figure it out.
I am pretty sure it was made in the early 80's. This nerdy kid at school saves up enough money to buy this really fancy telescope that he worked all summer for. He goes to the mall to buy said telescope and the really popular girl at school is across the way. The nerdy kid spots her the cash and in exchange she makes him popular by "dating" him for weeks. They end up "breaking up" so that he stays popular. All the other kids find out that it was a scam, etc so the nerdy kids ends up unpopular again.
In the end the nerdy kid and the popular girl end up back together.
Anyone know the title of this movie? I want to say that the main actor kind of looks like a young Sean Penn.
Can't Buy Me Love w/ Patrick Dempsy and Amanda Peterson
My brother has a Bushnell voyager sky tour telescope, and I want to take pictures of the sky using my camera and his telescope, (at the moment it just sits around collecting dust). But I cannot find an adapter to hold the camera body so the telescope is the lens. My camera is a Digital-SLR Canon XT.
If you know where to find one or what one might be called please let me know, thank you!
Orion can sell you the adapter you need: http://www.telescope.com/control/product/~category_id=photo_accessories/~pcategory=astro-imaging/~product_id=05264
Note you'll also need a Canon EOS T-adapter. Once you figure out how to set this up and focus it, you should be able to get pictures of the moon. To get star clusters, galaxies, etc. will require a bit more work, if it's possible at all with your telescope. You need a solid equatorial mount with a motor drive. With a less than solid equatorial mount, you will have to take lots of short exposures and stack them. Without a driven equatorial mount, you'll be limited to the moon. You don't say what model sky tour your brother has, but those low-end Bushnells range from totally unsuitable to (at best) inadequate for astrophotography.
Astrophotography is a challenging pursuit, even with a better telescope. I suggest you get a good book on DSLR astrophotography (see links below).
