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, 13 April 2013

Moving the mirror on the SkyWatcher 130M

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My SkyWatcher 130M telescope needs a little help to reach prime focus with a DSLR camera (see also this great blog post ). So I decided to ...

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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...

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