Using the 1838 6» Fraunhofer telescope in the Old Observatory of Leiden in combination with a «Gosky Universal Cell Phone Adapter», it was relatively easy to properly align the camera with
the telescope eyepiece.
In the past, the life of an astronomer may have been one of quiet nights spent peering through
a telescope eyepiece.
Not exact matches
Magnification is determined by your
telescope's focal length (see above) and your
eyepiece.
Get a long focal length
telescope (see above) and use the included starter
eyepiece.
Start with your
telescope's included
eyepiece.
As the name suggests, a Reflector
telescope has a mirror at the end of its tube which gathers light, before sending it through another mirror into the
eyepiece.
The smartest and most cost - effective way to increase the performance of your
telescope is a quality set of
eyepieces.
Most professional astronomers now work that way too, operating
telescopes remotely with computers and rarely looking through an
eyepiece.
You could say that Tillmans, who won the Turner prize in 2000, swapped the
telescope for the camera, one kind of
eyepiece for another, turning from things that are very far away, like the craters of the moon, to things close to home - the skin of an orange, rolled socks on a sofa, friends and lovers, intimacies both human and inanimate: rumpled clothing, the clutter on a windowsill, the detritus of a party, a bowl of fruit.