digiscope
verbEtymology Blend of digital + telescope.
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To record distant images by coupling a digital camera with an optical telescope.
digiscope
nounEtymology Blend of digital + telescope.
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A digital camera coupled with an optical telescope for the recording of distant images.
- The rubber at the eyepiece outer lens is soft and pliable, making it difficult for my digiscopes to firmly grip it and, hence, take pictures.2021 October 17, “Smartphone Imaging Through the Oberwerk 7mm Eyepiece”, in Cloudy Nights, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2024:
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A photograph taken with such a device.
- The only known photographic evidence available is a series of extremely poor quality digiscopes I took on the morning of 21 October.2018 June 23, Ruben Stoll, “First Tennessee record of Brown Booby”, in The Migrant, volume 89, number 2, The Tennessee Ornithological Society, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2023, page 52: