The T-Adapter was orignaly meant for the ETX-90/125 but fitted just fine and after some focusing it allowed the camera to produce magnificent quality pictures.. Unfortunately I ran the battery dry after an hour or so while trying different combinations of focusing , ISO settings etc. so I didnt take photos of the moon and other planets I wanted tonight.

The weather also didnt help since there are some scattered clouds that pass and spoil the fun ..

I managed to capture a good still of Saturn and I am looking forward to Saturday when the so called “super moon” will be visible ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MPmdJ6mGQ4 )

Saturn using a Nikon-D7000 on a MEADE DS-2102MAK telescope mounted with the Bresser T-adapter for ETX-90/125

The raw picture , 6.6MB ( it will take some time to download )
Exposure time is 1/500 sec , ISO 12800 ( )

Taking a peek at the heavens is extraordinary and I am slowly learning about things that I simply considered as "stars" are in fact planets , their ever changing relative positions and how to navigate the night sky ( with a little help from google sky ) . Although Athens is a highly light polluted area the high quality of the telescope and the recent windy and clear of clouds sky permits clear planet observations.. I haven’t found a way to mount my camera in a good way on top of the telescope and I may order this camera adapter

While unboxing my new telescope , a MEADE DS-2102MAK

The Newall Telescope of the National Observatory

This picture of the moon is taken using a 5MP cell phone camera after carefully aligning it to the telescope viewfinder..
Not bad at all!

Saturn , approximately 1.216.000.000 km away

Observing the moon , image taken with the same cell phone camera

I also made my scripts a little less retarded
They do not alter at all the files in the FOLDER directory
They just do the resize operation and then call the encoder..

TimelapseScripts.tar

Usage ..!

Step 1) Extract the scripts on a directory ( on a linux machine etc etc.. [ see last post for more info ] )
Step 2) Open a terminal window cd to the extracted directory root
Step 3) Run “./ExecuteAll.sh”
Step 4) A file named test1800.mp4 should be generated containing your timelapse video , enjoy

My camera has a built in intervalometer that I use to acquire the pictures , but lower-end cameras that do not have this kind of functionality can be “hacked” with an Arduino i.e. and be used likewise. This site has a lot of opensource hardware and software , that can be used to this end.

The results are not so good until now , at least when compared to this..

Due to environmental pollution and the lights of the city there are only a few stars visible from Athens. For daytime shots on the other hand , I have yet to find a proper position and camera configuration that on a course of 5-10 hours for example will provide a pleasing visual result..!

These are some of my timelapses so far , the third is the best one..

These are the scripts I use.. (TimeLapseTools.tar)

And these are the instructions :

To customize them you should edit the files directly and append your own parameters

STEP 0 : You will first need to extract the TimeLapseTools.tar.gz somewhere and empty your photographs , to become timelapsed in the FOLDER folder
they will have filenames like DSC_XXXX.jpg

STEP 1 : Make sure you have ffmpeg and imagemagick installed on your Linux Distro , for Debian/Ubuntu you can do sudo apt-get install ffmpeg imagemagick to download them.
It goes without saying that if you need an exotic codec for your video file you must also find it and download it too..

STEP 2 : Open a terminal and cd to the directory which has the scripts

STEP 3 : Run ./file_rename_script.sh which will change the filenames from DSC_XXXX.jpg to img_XXX.jpg starting from img_001.jpg and empty the FOLDER directory placing all of the files in the current dir.

STEP 4 : Run ./resize_images.sh which will change the resolution of the images to 1631×1080 for my cameras aspect ration creating _img_XXX.jpg for every img_XXX.jpg ( notice the initial _ )

STEP 5 : Run ./ffmpegcommand which will create an mp4 file with an image size of 1631×1080 @ 25 fps

STEP 6 : Upload to Youtube , or profit ;p