Celestron 93626 Universal Digital Camera Adapter

by Celestron

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 4.8 x 4.6 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007UQNWW
• Item model number: 93626
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #5 in Camera & Photo > Accessories > Telescope Accessories > Photo Adapters
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 18, 2005

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

With the Celestron 93626 Universal Digital Camera Adapter, you can secure your digital camera to your telescope and begin to capture images of the moon, planets, bright-deep sky objects and other terrestrial objects.

Product Description

TE1)CELESTRON DIGITAL CAMERA ADAPTER

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works as intended, October 6, 2009

By 

Hayduke453 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Celestron 93626 Universal Digital Camera Adapter (Electronics)

I bought this to use with my Meade 102mm scope and Canon A540 Powershot. It clamps to the eyepiece firmly and adjusts to fit my camera. It has a massive amount of adjustment so it should fit a wide variety of cameras. Works very well.

I had to experiment to find the best mounting position and shooting method. I use a heavy Bogen video tripod which works well for this setup. A lighter tripod would not work well since there is a large amount of vibration at high magnification to deal with. Here is the method that works best for my scope and camera:

1- Remove the diagonal prism and place the eyepiece directly into the eyepiece holder (straight through viewing method). Tighten setscrew firmly.

2- Look through the eyepiece and focus the scope.

3- Clamp the adapter to the eyepiece.

4- Mount the camera then center the lens with the X and Y adjustment screws. Leave Z adjustment loose.

5- Very carefully zoom the lens to full telephoto while watching the distance to the eyepiece. Adjust the Z axis so the fully zoomed camera lens is not quite touching the scope eyepiece.

6- Leave the camera in auto focus mode. Turn off focus aid light.

7- Adjust zoom as necessary to obtain a good picture on the camera screen. The camera needs to be zoomed in quite a bit to avoid vignetting.

8- Re-focus the telescope as needed to obtain the sharpest camera view.

9- Use the timed shutter release mode to avoid blurring caused by vibrations. 10 seconds works great.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Solid, Heavy, Too Big, October 31, 2007

By 

D. Tseng "SpacemanDave" (Pasadena, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Celestron 93626 Universal Digital Camera Adapter (Electronics)

I've owned this Celestron 93626 Universal Digital Camera Adapter for two weeks. I used it for birding, digiscoping. It is solidly built but a bit too heavy (over balancing my Kowa 60mm scope). Also, it does NOT fit ultra compact cameras. My Canon SD800is is too small to work with this product. I assume that similarly sized cameras will also not work (3.5" x 2").

Amazon has great customer service and returns. So you may wish to try it out yourself.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not for 2" EP or camcorders, January 29, 2009

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Altar Boy "Pax Vobis" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Celestron 93626 Universal Digital Camera Adapter (Electronics)

My main reason for purchasing this device was to be able to do a variety of eyepiece astrophotography. I attempted to hook up one of my 2" eye pieces and a Sony Cyber Camera to this adapter and it won't work. The camera platform is too short in all vertical adjustments to bring the camera's lens dead center into the 2" eyepiece. Also I attempted to hook up my Sony camcorder and one of my 1-1/4" eye pieces and again - the platform was not deep enough on the horizontal plane to enable the camcorder's lens to see through the 1-1/4" eyepiece. The only way I can use this adapter with my digital Cyber Camera is to hook it up to a 1-1/4" eyepiece. This seems to work, but I did not buy the device to be used in only one configuration. I bought it in order to use it with various sizes of eyepieces and various types of video and camera equipment. Because of the limited use I give it three stars. Hopefully I will be able to machine some components that will enable me to use 2" eye pieces as well as my HD camcorder.