digiscope
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English
Etymology
Noun
digiscope (plural digiscopes)
- A digital camera coupled with an optical telescope for the recording of distant images.
- 2021 October 17, “Smartphone Imaging Through the Oberwerk 7mm Eyepiece”, in Cloudy Nights, archived from the original on 13 April 2024:
- 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.
- A photograph taken with such a device.
- 2018 June, Ruben Stoll, “First Tennessee record of Brown Booby”, in The Migrant, volume 89, number 2, The Tennessee Ornithological Society, archived from the original on 8 February 2023, page 52:
- The only known photographic evidence available is a series of extremely poor quality digiscopes I took on the morning of 21 October.
Verb
digiscope (third-person singular simple present digiscopes, present participle digiscoping, simple past and past participle digiscoped)
- To record distant images by coupling a digital camera with an optical telescope.