Description
- Product 1: A piggyback ride for your camera! Let your telescope do the driving while your camera takes beautiful wide-angle images of the sky
- Product 1: Use your own camera lenses to take photographs of the Milky Way, nebulae, the Moon, and more
- Product 1: Attaches easily to the top rear of any Schmidt Cassegrain telescope in minutes
- Product 2: The Celestron Universal T-Adapter connects a DSLR or SLR camera to a refractor for prime focus photography
- Product 2: The adapters chrome barrel slides into any focuser that accepts 1.25 accessories
- Product 2: T-Threads accept camera brand specific T-Ring (sold separately)
Celestron Universal Piggyback Mount
A piggyback bracket is a simple astronomical accessory that can help you produce stunning photographs of the night sky. It allows you to attach a DSLR camera and lens to any Celestron SCT optical tube assembly and take advantage of the fact that your telescope has a dual-axis motor drive. When your telescope is running with the camera attached, you can take longer exposures without star trails, and capture details in objects that would have been impossible had your camera been attached to a photographic tripod or a telescope without a drive system. Experiment with different camera lenses and subjects. Some photographers love to capture comets with a relatively long, fast lens, and the Milky Way, as well as a myriad combination of terrestrial and celestial scenes, are yours for the taking when you own a Celestron SCT, a piggyback mount, a DSLR camera, and a couple of lenses.
Celestron 93625 1.25 Inch Universal SLR or DSLR Camera T-Adapter, Silver/Black
The Celestron Universal T-Adapter connects a DSLR or SLR camera body to a telescope with a 1.25 focuser or eyepiece adapter installed. The T-Threads on the top of the Universal T-Adapter screw into a T-Ring (sold separately) that is designed to attach to the brand-specific mounting flange of your camera. The barrel end of the T-Adapter slides into the focuser, just like an eyepiece, and locks into place with the focuser or eyepiece adapter thumbscrew. Please note that some telescopes, especially fast refractors and most Newtonians, may not have enough focus travel to allow the photographic image to come to focus when used in prime focus mode. In these instances, we recommend using the Universal Barlow & T-Adapter (#93640), which will double the magnification, but will allow the telescope to reach focus. Prime focus photography is popular for short exposure images of terrestrial objects as well as celestial objects like the Moon.