Does this page help. https://www.telescopeadapters.com/content/9-telescope

Or try these guys - they are "fairly local" to you (well certainly closer than the USA)
https://www.tringastro.co.uk/

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Today in the community garden, as it had been raining, I tied to get a shot of raindrops on a plant.

I got this with my Canon Ixus .



And this with my iPhone 5c



If you look, you can just make out the reflection of my phone in the top raindrop.

To be fair I brought a set of "clip on " lenses and I am impressed with the results so far.

There is a macro, which was used here, a telephoto, a wide angle and a fish eye.

If the sun stays out for long enough I will try some of the others out.

I bought a Canon 1 time but didn't have very much luck with it.
it said it had a steady cam on it which to me didn't work very good.

My very first Nikon was a gem and was lost in moving here,
Like yours, great, sharp and easy to use,

Yours looks like I could reach out and get my finger wet. LOL

Step-downs are a bit less common that step-ups, but ebay, amazon etc. can be your friend

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I have a 102 MM telescope but can't go much higher than 54 power. The moon is about all you can see more than that.
it's a orion 102 MM, I like the scope the the rest is heavy.

@ Chris
You mentioned you have a iPhone 4s. What telescope you have, I don't know. This may be a cheaper option to astrophotography. You just have to purchase the proper smartphone adapter for your telescope.

https://www.f1telescopes.co.uk/shop/accessories-by-brand/celestron-telescope-accessories/celestron-smartphone-adapters/celestron-x-cel-lx-to-iphone-44s-smartphone-adapter/

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That is indeed another option to consider. The adaptor is £51 the eyepieces are £69 each.

Eyepieces

What is the brand name and model of your telescope?

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Wow. I'm just lurking away. All our seti photographers are so talented!!! Thank you for sharing your lovely photos.

+1

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~Sue~

A lot of these photographs aren't appearing on my screen. Instead there is a message from photobucket asking people to update their account.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

A lot of these photographs aren't appearing on my screen. Instead there is a message from photobucket asking people to update their account.

Yes, we can blame photobucket for that - and for the deluge of spam arriving in my inbox, asking me to update my account.

I think you'll find that the problem mainly affects the older photographs - recent offerings are all displaying correctly, implying that the uploaders have adjusted by switching to an alternative hosting service.

Quite a number of folks were caught by PhotoBucket changing its terms and conditions. This change basically said "pay us or you can't share your pictures". I know a number of people relied on PhotoBucket to store the master copy of all their photos, and are now in the process of getting them back, a task that is proving to be less than easy when the account is locked.....

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Quite a number of folks were caught by PhotoBucket changing its terms and conditions. This change basically said "pay us or you can't share your pictures". I know a number of people relied on PhotoBucket to store the master copy of all their photos, and are now in the process of getting them back, a task that is proving to be less than easy when the account is locked.....

I thought the issue was just sharing. The accounts shouldn't be locked, per se. The user should just be denied the option to link to the photo from another site.

You mentioned sharing but, again, the accounts shouldn't be locked.

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~Sue~

One person I know used their account primarily for sharing pics - and it was locked, they are still trying to get their pics back from PB as their account has been locked. They were a heavy user, lots of wild life pics shared all over the place, and PB "got hard" with them :-(

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

All my originals are still on my camera. They were copied over to my computer, then they were photobucket ehhanced beore being put photofucket.

I now use Imgur which I am very happy with.

Personally I hope that Photobucket goes bankrupt and into receivership, and Alex Welch and Darren Crystal end up in court as the money grabbing scum that they are.

Tell us what you "REALLY" think about them Chris. :-)

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That's really nice Gru. You sure have a eye for that stuff.

That's really nice Gru. You sure have a eye for that stuff.

I agree.

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~Sue~

I decided to try to get some starry sky pictures, tonight. I managed to get a couple of satisfactory pictures of the Belt of Orion. The Belt of Orion is the three stars in close proximity to each other, as seen in the two photos, below.

I did these as timed exposures on a tripod, in the backyard. (You can see the roof of the house.)

The first photo has a manual exposure I chose of F 3.5(lens aperture), 3200 ISO(Digital SLR equivalent to film speed), and a 1 second shutter speed.

The second photo has a manual exposure I chose of F 3.5(lens aperture), 3200 ISO(Digital SLR equivalent to film speed), and a 5 second shutter speed.

Both done with an 18 mm focal length on the Canon lens, set manually for infinity focusing.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

You did pretty good Gordon, we haven't a clear night for a few weeks now.
I missed the star shower last week but we had rain (the other kind of shower)

Thank you.

Any ideas on what the circled things might be? I'm assuming Mars on one. Venus on the other one?

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place