Thorry

I AM CUTE AS A BOAR!

I feel you brother, but small scale wind is pathetic. It makes so much noise and produces fuck all for energy. If you look into the amount of engineering that goes into large scale wind mills, it’s crazy. They are really pushing the limits of what humans can do and end up with pretty good stuff. I’m all for windmills and would love to have one. But I’ve looked into it and it sucks ass for small scale.

You don’t put the camera on the eyepiece, the camera becomes the eyepiece. I’ve used my DSLR for decades with my scope, until I bought a real astro cam.

Usually it’s a combination of a T-ring to adapt the camera lens mounting system into a generic screw form. Then a T adaptor gets screwed into that, which is basically a small little tube with the diameter of the hole the eyepiece goes in.

On some of my scopes the hole is large, with a piece that slots in and allows for small eyepiece to be placed. When I remove all of that I’m left with a large hole to fit in the T adaptor. This is important as it allows the entire sensor to receive light.

There’s also an extra piece one could screw on called a coma corrector. This is an extra lens that reduces distortion due to the optics of the scope and of the camera not being exactly compatible. But these reduce light throughput and can cause vignettes, but some people swear by them.

These are all very cheap components (relative to all the other astro photography stuff) and they are easily available.

Have you checked wind loading in your area? These things can become a sail very easily and need to be securely mounted as to not go flying. Also the metal frames need to be grounded, I don’t see a grounding wire?

Not to be down on your project, it’s a cool project, but I wouldn’t want your work to go to waste within a year.

Are we going some sort of animal? Of more of like anime waifu kind of vibe?

Well yes and no. It’s a giant piece of silicon, but it’s also exposed to high energy rays all the time. Panels can suffer from water ingress and then crack when it freezes. They are exposed to all sorts of animals, both big and small that can cause damage. Have their top surfaces get more opaque due to normal erosion. Those things can either outright break the panel, or slowly make it less efficient. UV rays alone cause a degradation of around 1% every year. However modern more efficient compact panels suffer more from this than the older kind. So old panels might still be going strong, but give a modern panel the same amount of ageing and it might do a lot worse.