Since planets appear very tiny in field of view (at native focal length of standard telescope) you will need to have Barlow lens 2X or 3X to achieve higher magnification essential for Planetary imaging.įor Planetary Imaging you need to capture & stack multiple frames to enhance S/N ratio for getting better details. Technically Dobsonian (Alt-Az design) mounted telescope is designed for Observational purpose only but if you have a Digicam or DSLR capable of connecting to the telescope at prime focus you can do some descent Astrophotography right off the setup without need of expensive tracking mountsetup.

I have updated Stellarium to the latest version after using StellariumScope for some time now, Telescope control in plug-ins is ticked to load at startup, my scope shows as disconnected which is an AZ EQ6-GT, settings tab shows it as controlled by ASCOM, the ASCOM settings/ ASCOM telescope chooser has the EQMOD HEQ5/6 enabled which is what has always been used, but for some reason in telescope properties under Coordinate system the start/connect at start up tab is greyed out, im assuming because of the this is the reason my scope does not connect at start up? as soon as i connect all is well but i have to go into plug-ins every time, press configure and manually connect at which point eqmod loads up and the small telescope retical appears and shows around Polaris which is where my scope is parked.You don't need to have expensive high end setup to start doing Astrophotography.

Stellarium telescope control dobsonion