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Old January 16th 17, 07:39 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Chris L Peterson
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Default any way to use Amazon Fire tablet in front of telescope ep?

On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:12:38 -0500, David
wrote:

A friend just donated an Amazon Fire tablet to the school. This is the
latest, cheapest model ($49 I believe on Amazon). It seems to have a
built in 720p camera. Two questions:

1) Can I use it in front of the ep we use for our ETX-90, that being
Scopetronix 40mm and 14mm eyepieces?

2) What adapter would I need?

3) What sort of image scale could I expect on the screen?

This is the first time I've ever run across such a device (tablet), so
not very familiar with it, but if we can get it going to use as a basic
camera in front of the eyepiece, it would be the most convenient set up
yet.


There are various eyepiece adapters made for phones. I wouldn't be
surprised if you could find something for a tablet, or do a bit of DIY
modification to a phone adapter.

Although the camera in that tablet is far from ideal for the purpose,
it's likely to produce decent enough results on bright objects like
planets and the Moon. You can probably get a fair idea by just holding
it up to the eyepiece.