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.

Thursday, 16 February 2012

Webcam Moon Mosaic with Xbox Live Vision

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A couple of weeks ago I took a series of photographs of the moon using my telescope and the Xbox Live Vision webcam to turn into a mosaic...

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Wednesday, 1 February 2012

WebCam capture with Python on Mac OS X

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I typically program in Python, and in the absence of any open source astrophotography software for webcam image capture that will run under ...

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Tuesday, 31 January 2012

UVC webcam exposure under Mac OS X

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

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Sunday, 29 January 2012

Xbox 360 WebCam IR filter

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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...

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Saturday, 28 January 2012

Mains power for multi-speed EQ2 motor

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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...

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