digiscope

English

Etymology

Blend of digital +‎ telescope

Noun

digiscope (plural digiscopes)

1. 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^[1], 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.

2. A photograph taken with such a device.
   • 2018 June, Ruben Stoll, “First Tennessee record of Brown Booby”, in The Migrant‎^[2], 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)

1. To record distant images by coupling a digital camera with an optical telescope.