Digiscoping is the activity of using a digital camera to record distant images by coupling it with an optical telescope.
The word "digiscoping" was coined in 1999 by French birdwatcher Alain Fossé.
Less notable neologisms for this activity are digiscope birding, digiscopy birding, digi-birding, digibinning (using digital camera with binoculars), and phonescoping (using a digital camera phone with a spotting scope or binoculars).
The origins of the activity called Digiscoping has been attributed to the photographic methods of Laurence Poh, a birdwatcher from the Malaysian Nature Society, who discovered in 1999 almost by accident that the ne