Digiscoping with the Meade ETX 90

[Widowmaker]

I have thrown together a website pertaining to digiscoping with the Coolpix 4500 and Meade ETX-90. It contains information gathered from my experience so far, equipment I use, links to where I purchased it and images I have taken with the setup. Hopefully it will be of some use. Mainly from folks looking for a relatively inexpensive entry into digiscoping.

Widowmaker's ETX-90 Digiscoping Page (http://www2.netdoor.com/~brenda/digiscoping.htm)

[IanF]

Well put toether and some useful tips there.

[Nick-on]

Like the website, nice pics well up to the standard that I would be delighted with, and some good info there.
Got incredibly excited when saw the price for the ETX-90 ($179 as opposed to £550 in UK although UK price includes tripod and autostar). checked out the Anacortes website and found that shipping to the UK was no problem.............well one problem really, to ship it to the UK would cost $134(must be coming by concorde), nearly doubling the price!!!!!!!! add this to potential import duties and it wasn't such a bargain after all. Shame really because I was going to copy Widowmakers setup as it seemed an excellent (reasonably priced) intro into digiscoping (plus I have been after a combined astro/birding scope for a while).
Anyway, like I said, like the pics, especially the woodpecker, that's a good sized image for 50yds distance, what magnification does your eyepiece give?

[Widowmaker]

Originally posted by Nick-on
Anyway, like I said, like the pics, especially the woodpecker, that's a good sized image for 50yds distance, what magnification does your eyepiece give?

Im not sure about the magnification. Im guessing around 50x. Its a 28 mm eyepiece. Maybe someone here knows the exact figure. Plus factor the cameras zoom.

Sorry about the shipping deal. I need to specify in the first paragraph that this was all US purchased to save folks some reading. I forget that Im posting in a UK site. I have not found any US sites that compare to this one.