Digiscoping adaptor

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I have bought a digiscoping adapter from eBay. Until I receive it I shall use the vendor's excellent pictures.

He is being remarkably communicative with email updates of order acceptance and despatch. It is supposed to be coming from Germany so there is hope for an early delivery. Possibly even before Christmas? I doubt it.

It was long overdue that I stopped my hand-held snapping away at astro objects through the eyepiece. I did use an eyepiece clamp and camera plate for the Venus transit. But, it was so incredibly awkward to use with the telescope pointing high up that I never used it again!

I couldn't see the camera focusing screen hidden underneath the camera body without crawling on my knees. Or lying on the wet grass on my back! Even if I did, I couldn't focus my own eyes with my glasses having the reading section at the bottom of the lenses. (as is perfectly normal of course) 

I wanted to use my star diagonal but my home made clamp was for my 2" draw-tube. My star diagonal (at that time) only accepted (normal) 1.25" eyepieces! I now have a 2" star diagonal but it is massively oversized for my 2" clamp. Grrr.  So I really needed a universal camera platform which clamped onto the outside of my 1.25" eyepieces. One which could be (hopefully) set and forgotten. 

I went to the city (Odense) and  dashed about between milling Christmas shoppers. But I failed to find an adaptor in any of the local camera or hunting shops. (Hunting shops stock spotting telescopes)

So I tried eBay. I missed a secondhand one. This went higher than I wanted to pay for a used one including international postage.

So I paid a "Buy it Now" price for half what it would cost me from an online Danish vendor. (Including their ridiculous postal charges!)

The eBay vendor claimed their stock is in Germany. Right next door to Denmark. Their international postal charges are still lower than within Denmark. I will name the vendor on receipt if their service is good enough.  

I'll leave this note until it arrives. Then I can take my own pictures with my camera fitted to an eyepiece. Hopefully the device will improve my astro snaps. I shall write a proper review when I can examine the adapter for myself. Hopefully with some decent lunar images taken with its help.

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