> Has anyone had success in attaching a low weight, low light compact
> digital camera to a telescope eyepiece for imaging the night sky? I
> already have a good attachment using the following
>
> ETX...

>>On 16 Sep, 21:22, James Harris googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone had success in attaching a low weight, low light compact
>> digital camera to a telescope eyepiece for imaging the night sky? I
>> already have a good attachment using the following
>>
>> ETX-90
>> Standard Meade lenses
>> Digi-T adapter -http://www.scopetronics.com/dtsystems.htm
>> Olympus C4040Z camera
>> Cam2com software -http://www.sabsik.com/
>>
>> The problem is that the camera is slightly heavier than I would like.
>> At 420 grammes it seems a bit of a load on the telescope. I'd rather
>> avoid counterweights so I'm looking for a more modern and lighter
>> camera. The basic requirement is that it have a threaded attachment
>> like the one shown below so I can couple it directly to the eyepiece,
>> and be low weight. One that has good low light performance would be
>> good.
>>
>> The threading on which the Digi-T adapter mounts is just visible in ...