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It's pretty easy to mate an interchangeable lens camera (DSLR, Micro Four Thirds, etc) with a small telescope. There are standard adapters for it. That basicall
by Florin_Andrei 10y ago
It's pretty easy to mate an interchangeable lens camera (DSLR, Micro Four Thirds, etc) with a small telescope. There are standard adapters for it. That basically gives you the telephoto lens to rule all telephoto lenses.
- anigbrowl 10y agoI know, I've done it. It's beautifully clear for a 5km throw though.
- Florin_Andrei 10y agoSeeing conditions must cooperate also. The shot is totally within the capabilities of a 200 mm Schmidt–Cassegrain in good seeing, which is not very bulky and could sit comfortably on a medium-to-large size tripod. The theoretical linear resolving power of that aperture at 5 km is 12 mm. But in practice it will be several times worse. This is all napkin-based math, I've no clue what optics were used for the shot. Might have been a compact 150 mm apochromat refractor - still capable of enough theoretical resolution, and possibly a more popular option (though more expensive) in practice.