1st moon shot through the telescope

I finally got a T-adapter and tried my hand at hooking the camera up to my Celestron C8 tonight. As expected, it took a bit of experimenting to find the right settings. The only thing I couldn't do was get a good sharp focus. Fine tuning the focus through the viewfinder is woefully inadequate. Any suggestions for how to get in focus?

Here's my best out of a dozen attempts.

N_Addy said:

The only thing I couldn't do was get a good sharp focus. Fine tuning the focus through the viewfinder is woefully inadequate. Any suggestions for how to get in focus?

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Instead use Live View, and then zoom way in on that view, so you can see the fine detail of the tiny craters to focus on.

Have you aligned the scope?

WayneF said:

Instead use Live View, and then zoom way in on that view, so you can see the fine detail of the tiny craters to focus on.

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It's a D80 so no Live View. I guess I can zoom in on each shot and see how close I am. Seems kinda slow but it would be better than my current method (focus, shoot, hope, refocus, shoot, hope).

And yeah, the scope is aligned. It's my eyes that don't work.

nice n addy. it looks like you will need a focal reducer to get the whole thing in one shot......i have similar gear but not accomplished yet due to weather...