Sorry I didn't you anything yet, I forgot I had golf league.

I looked up your scope and it is pretty slick. If you haven't upgraded already, I would suggest that you also get an autoguider and upgrading your focuser to have a coarse/fine adjustment.
Disregard that right ascension drive, I had another mount in mind.

I have taken pictures of the Orion Nebula from a tripod at ISO3200+ however it was with a D7000. I'll post them for you when I get home along with the exposure times. Hopefully it will give you an idea of what to expect.

I think the camera will do great. If you shoot at ISO3200 you won't need 30 seconds to get an image, the background will have a lot of color noise.
Best thing to get is an equatorial mount with a right ascension drive.

Attached is a picture I took with a D3100. 30 second exposure, ISO200. Taken through a 120mm refractor.

Orion Nebula

Here you go!

http://www.smartphotoeditor.com/downloads/SmartPhotoEditor.pdf

I dint think it's an NTSC / PAL issue. It may be the video format the files were recorded in. I think the default is AVCHD but you may need to convert it to MPEG-4 to get them to play on an iPad and perhaps your TV also.
What type of TV do you have?
What cable are you using to connect?

Wow Eric, Pic #1 is simply awesome. :thumbup:

What a good question that has brought on many good opinions. I had bought (I think an off brand) rapid strap that connected to the camera strap eyelets. I found that it was annoying that the straps would cover the screen and cover my thumb while poised for shooting. I started to unclip one side but I still found that annoying. I eventually put that strap on my IR camera and bought a CarrySpeed FS-Pro that utilizes the tripod socket. The mounting plate underneath has 6 1/4-20 sockets and I keep my tripod quick release plate installed. I haven't had any problems with the design and it holds my D7000 with 300mm zoom just fine while climbing trees, mountains, walls, etc.

I did see comments that claimed that the tripod socket was not designed to hold the camera via strap. I was concerned that I may damage my camera so I contacted Nikon and this was their reply.

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Response David D. via Email 04/30/2014 10:32 AM

HI

Thanks for the question. We have tested these sort of straps and found that they can safely be used with our products. We do caution that you don't drop the camera when finished shooting, rather, lower it gently until the strap is supporting the weight. Thanks

-David

Customer James via Web 04/30/2014 07:23 AM

Does Nikon support the use of camera straps that utilize the tripod socket for connection to the camera?
Does the ISO 1222 spec specify this?

Thank you.
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You are correct, that was Mars by the Moon last night.

Last nights total lunar eclipse.

Lunar eclipse phases

The phases of last nights total lunar eclipse.

The other dark side of the Moon

Will do. I have some but my hands are too numb to handle my SD card. :lol:

I'm using 300m on a 1.5 crop sensor. About to hook my camera up to my telescope.

That's a bummer. I'm lucky tonight; many times I have cloud cover during celestial events.

The penumbral phase of tonight's total lunar eclipse. Not like you can see much eclipse, it's just dimmed at this point.

Penumbral