Astro-Beano

Novice astronomer and photographer near Dundee, Scotland, starting out with his first telescope. Also dissects webcams & puts them in bird boxes, and tinkers with Raspberry Pi projects.

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

UVC webcam exposure under Mac OS X

Apple's Mac OS X includes drivers for USB Video Device Class (UVC) cameras , which means that most webcams, including the Xbox Live Vi...

Sunday, 29 January 2012

Xbox 360 WebCam IR filter

My first blog post was about mounting the Xbox Live Vision camera on a telescope for astrophotography. Last night I removed the built in re...

Saturday, 28 January 2012

Mains power for multi-speed EQ2 motor

Thus far I've been using my telescope just outside the house, or sometimes indoors when it has been very windy. This means rather than w...

Inside the EQ2 motor controller

I decided to open the control box for my SkyWatcher telescope's EQ2 mount multi-speed motor . Other than curiosity and to see how you ...

Multi-speed motor for SkyWatcher EQ2 mount

After trying the single speed simple economy EQ2 motor with my SkyWatcher telescope, I decided to upgrade to the multi-speed version which...

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