Astrophoto...?

Recently I was looking throught my telescope meade (great refactor) when I found jupiter , I really get exited because i've never seen a planet (only in pictures or T.V). So naturally I Wished to capture that moment but someone tells me that I can only use a ccd camera to take the picture throught the telescope it's that true or I can use my digital camera Konica Minolta 5.0 megapixels dimage Z20 or my Sony Ericson phone camera.

I've heard of alot of people getting by with digital camera's............... preferably a digital SLR (more adjustment)........... or slightly modified webcams for astrophotography.......... before CCD images people also used to use 35mm Film SLR camera's with a special adaptor.

Some sites that may help:
http://skytonight.com/howto/astrophotogr...
http://www.weasner.com/etx/astrophotogra...
http://www.telescopehouse.co.uk/page.asp...
http://www.astropix.com/
http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/l...

Just call the great folks at Meade.
http://www.meade.com/

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yeah call meade, they will know best what t ofit with your telescope,

Astrophotography tutorials: http://www.net-art.it/photomonitor/html/...