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.

Saturday, 30 March 2013

Installing Canon EOS Utility on Mac without the CD

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My second hand Canon EOS 1000D has arrived (intended for astrophotography ), but without the manual or software CD. Canon provide this stuff...

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Saturday, 9 March 2013

Raspberry Pi motion sensitive Trail-Cam

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My Raspberry Pi at the bottom of the garden is now monitoring an unmodified XBox webcam pointing at a fence break, rather than the mice vi...

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Tuesday, 5 March 2013

PS3 Eye Camera for astrophotography

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I was inspired to try out the PlayStation 3 Eye camera for astrophotogaphy after seeing this amazing Orion M42 nebula image taken using a PS...

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Thursday, 28 February 2013

Trapezium (Orion Nebula) using Xbox Webcam

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I first tried imaging the Orion Nebula (M42) with the Xbox webcam on my SkyWatcher 130M telescope last year, and managed to resolve the T...

Sunday, 17 February 2013

SkyWatcher Explorer 130M with Canon EOS (Take 2)

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I borrowed a Canon EOS 1000D for the weekend, and was lucky to get some clear sky both on Friday and again tonight (Sunday). On Friday I wa...

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