I started experimenting with astrophotography using my Nikon Coolpix 995 digital camera and the Digi-T system by ScopeTronix (up until I started using my Canon EOS 20D). The Digi-T adapter is an adapter that makes it possible to mount a digital compact camera directly to the eyepiece. This makes it possible to get the camera lens extremely close to the eyepiece lense, which, with the right eyepieces, produces a wide field of view, and almost no vignetting. With any consumer digital compact camera (except SLRs), it is necessary to use eyepiece projection.

Most photography adapters (T-mount and T-adapters) for telescopes assume ‘prime focus’ projection without an eyepiece, which can only be used for SLR type digital cameras.

To find out (almost) everything you need to know about photography of planets, nebulas and star clusters with a consumer digital camera, feel free to visit my "Astrophotography with a Nikon CoolPix" page.

Note: Since starting my web site (and writing the above), I have upgraded to a Canon EOS 20D digital SLR camera.

Below you can find some of my most successful attempts at astrophotography. Click on any of the thumbnail pictures below to visit the astronomy photo album.