Attaching a digicam to a telescope: description and pictures

In response to some queries, I've put up a page of my digicam set-up. It
is at:
http://www.astunit.com/tonkinsastro/digicam/digicam.htm

I hope someone finds it useful, for ideas if nothing else.

Best,
Stephen

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On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:20:17 +0100, in uk.sci.astronomy , Martin Frey
wrote:

Stephen Tonkin wrote:

In response to some queries, I've put up a page of my digicam set-up. It
is at:
http://www.astunit.com/tonkinsastro/digicam/digicam.htm

I hope someone finds it useful, for ideas if nothing else.

Best,
Stephen

The really neat trick is how you manage to take pictures of the
digicam with the digicam...

*obviously*, he took a picture of a /photo/ of the digicam....

honestly, some people... :-)

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On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:20:17 +0100, in uk.sci.astronomy , Martin Frey
wrote:

Stephen Tonkin wrote:

In response to some queries, I've put up a page of my digicam set-up. It
is at:
http://www.astunit.com/tonkinsastro/digicam/digicam.htm

I hope someone finds it useful, for ideas if nothing else.

Best,
Stephen

The really neat trick is how you manage to take pictures of the
digicam with the digicam...

*obviously*, he took a picture of a /photo/ of the digicam....

honestly, some people... :-)

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CLC readme: http://www.angelfire.com/ms3/bchambless0/welcome_to_clc.html


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Stephen Tonkin wrote in message ...
Martin Frey wrote:
The really neat trick is how you manage to take pictures of the digicam
with the digicam...

For a small fee (well, OK, maybe not *so* small) I might be persuaded to
reveal my innovative recursive technique. I learned it as a 6-year old,
when my sister and I used our little cameras (she with a Brownie box, me
with a VP twin) to take photos of each other taking photos of each other
in order to see what would happen.

Best,
Stephen

OT Stephen! But thankyou for sharing. g

Funky Foam! (again)

A bit of pvc plumbing pipe (lined with black funky foam) allows me to
fit my unthreaded Sony P71 lens squarely (and on axis) onto 1.25"
eyepieces. Without damaging anything. Though still handheld. I switch
off the powersaving function (in the menu) to avoid that irritating
premature withdrawl. I wish I could report that my images are now
better than Kev's or Ian Kings's. But artists are born not made. I
merely "dabble".

Chris.B

Stephen Tonkin wrote in message ...
Martin Frey wrote:
The really neat trick is how you manage to take pictures of the digicam
with the digicam...

For a small fee (well, OK, maybe not *so* small) I might be persuaded to
reveal my innovative recursive technique. I learned it as a 6-year old,
when my sister and I used our little cameras (she with a Brownie box, me
with a VP twin) to take photos of each other taking photos of each other
in order to see what would happen.

Best,
Stephen

OT Stephen! But thankyou for sharing. g

Funky Foam! (again)

A bit of pvc plumbing pipe (lined with black funky foam) allows me to
fit my unthreaded Sony P71 lens squarely (and on axis) onto 1.25"
eyepieces. Without damaging anything. Though still handheld. I switch
off the powersaving function (in the menu) to avoid that irritating
premature withdrawl. I wish I could report that my images are now
better than Kev's or Ian Kings's. But artists are born not made. I
merely "dabble".

Chris.B

Robert Geake wrote:
There are 10 types of people in the world.
Those that understand binary and those that don't.
Dont get that!

C'mon, Robert -- what is the denary equivalent of binary 10 ?

Best,
Stephen

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Robert Geake wrote:
There are 10 types of people in the world.
Those that understand binary and those that don't.
Dont get that!

C'mon, Robert -- what is the denary equivalent of binary 10 ?

Best,
Stephen

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Err - Pete Lawrence mumbled something like:
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:33:47 +0000 (UTC), "Robert Geake"
wrote:

There are 10 types of people in the world.
Those that understand binary and those that don't.

Dont get that!

Think of it more as "there are 10 and 11 types of people in the world.
Those that understand binary and those that don't". Does that help?

What about the other type then?

Arthur


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Err - Pete Lawrence mumbled something like:
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:33:47 +0000 (UTC), "Robert Geake"
wrote:

There are 10 types of people in the world.
Those that understand binary and those that don't.

Dont get that!

Think of it more as "there are 10 and 11 types of people in the world.
Those that understand binary and those that don't". Does that help?

What about the other type then?

Arthur


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