{"id":7252,"date":"2011-10-16T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/16\/bringing-some-knack-into-astro-photography\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:38:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:38:02","slug":"bringing-some-knack-into-astro-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/16\/bringing-some-knack-into-astro-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing some Knack into Astro-Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time. It is a neat little project that allows for a quick and satisfying mixture of electronics and astronomy. It has been described on the web many times: Take an old web cam (preferably one of the old eyeball-looking devices) and remove the lens (I found it very cool to expose the charge coupled device).
<\/span><\/span>\"\"<\/a>Take a plastic 35 mm film container (hurry, while supplies last!) and chop off the bottom. Tape the container to the sans-lens webcam. Here’s the fun part: Insert 35 mm container and webcam into the focuser of your telescope. Bring laptop out to the telescope and take digital pictures with your telescope.<\/span>
<\/span>\"\"<\/a>I used Billy’s old Asus eeepc and a very simple program called Cheese. (There has got to be something better for this kind of work.)<\/span> But my results were very good. Last night I got images of Jupter and two of its moons. This morning I got some great shots of our moon.
<\/span><\/span>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Our book: “SolderSmoke — Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics”<\/span>http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <\/span>http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <\/span>http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time. It is a neat little project that allows for a quick and satisfying mixture of electronics and astronomy. It has been described on the web many times: Take an old web cam (preferably one of the old eyeball-looking devices) and remove the lens (I found … Continue reading “Bringing some Knack into Astro-Photography”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy","category-knack-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7260,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions\/7260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}