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Posted 2008-01-02, 09:20 AM in reply to Demosthenes's post starting "Lenny, I was wondering if you ever took..."
Not with mine, no.

I've just had a quick lookee on Google, on the general consensus is that you'd need a Digital SLR, and an afocal coupling, I think it's called, to attach it to the eyepiece, effectively using the telescope as a lense. If you want to go for exposures of longer than a few seconds, you'll also need an electric motor which will slowly turn the telescope to follow the object around the sky.

Alternatively, you can use a method called "piggybacking", in which you secure the camera to the telescope with a mount, start the motor running, and walk away - the camera takes a picture through its own lense, rather than through the telescope.

Here are two articles, from the same site as before. The first is piggybacking, the second is using the telescope as a lense.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/howto...tml?page=2&c=y

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/howto...tml?page=2&c=y

And if you want further reading, here's a list of astrophotography articles from the same site:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/howto/astrophotography

I assume you did get a telescope, then?
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