Piggyback Camera Mounts

ScopeTronix ETX Piggyback Camera Mounts

This "piggyback" camera mount will allow you to piggyback a 35mm camera on your ETX. This will let you to take short exposure unguided shots and long exposure guided shots (by guiding through the main tube). This is the best way to get into astrophotography. Since wide field low power shots are very forgiving to tracking errors, and you can get some great images of extended objects like M31, M42, etc. For longer exposures you should use an illuminated reticle crosshair eyepiece to guide the scope by making minute corrections while keeping a star centered in the crosshair. If you don't own an illuminated reticle eyepiece you can do it the poor mans way, just defocus the star image until it just about fills the eyepiece view, then just keep the "donut" centered! Constructed of high quality steel with a durable black powder coat finish. The inside is well padded to prevent marring that pretty ETX tube! Camera mounting is via a standard 1/4-20 camera thumbscrew. Includes a set of 4 counterweights as pictured.

ScopeTronix ETX-60/70 Piggyback Camera Mount

This "piggyback" camera mount will allow you to piggyback a 35mm camera on your ETX-60/70. This will let you to take short exposure unguided shots and long exposure guided shots (by guiding through the main tube). This is the best way to get into astrophotography. Since wide field low power shots are very forgiving to tracking errors, and you can get some great images of extended objects like M31, M42, etc. For longer exposures you should use an illuminated reticle crosshair eyepiece to guide the scope by making minute corrections while keeping a star centered in the crosshair. If you don't own an illuminated reticle eyepiece you can do it the poor mans way, just defocus the star image until it just about fills the eyepiece view, then just keep the "donut" centered! Constructed of high quality steel with a durable black powder coat finish. The inside is well padded to prevent marring that pretty ETX tube! Camera mounting is via a standard 1/4-20 camera thumbscrew. Includes a set of 4 counterweights as pictured.

Celestron Piggyback Mounts

Celestron's Piggyback Mount is a great accessory for all observers interested in deep-sky astrophotography, particularly beginners. This mount allows you to attach your camera, with its lens, to either the top or side of the telescope, making it possible to shoot with a normal or wide angle lens while guiding through the telescope. The NexStar 5 piggyback mount is used to mount your camera, with its lens, to the top of your NexStar 5 while still utilizing your StarPointer finderscope for telescope alignment. This is a must-have accessory for the astro photography enthusiast. The piggyback mount that fits the 8", 9.25", 11" and 14" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes mount to the rear cell of the telescope

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Customer Quotes

"I just received the MaxView™ 40 I ordered earlier this week. I am using it with an ETX-90 and Sony DSC-F707 digital camera. I am blown away with the quality of this eyepiece. Here's a shot of the Moon taken with the MaxView™ 40. Great eyepiece, I recommend it to anyone who is in the market for a good eyepiece to use with their digital camera. Thanks for the great service as well."

– Dwight