Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

Some weeks ago, I said I was going to post something on this site about using my iSight camera with a big telescope. My friend Tim and I were going to build an adapter and I was going to post all the details right here so that all three other people on the web who would want to try to do such a thing could learn from our experience. I even managed to shoot a movie of Saturn, from which I was able to make a decent still picture.

And then, I posted something else that said I was going to do it, I swear… And this is another post like that.

The adapter exists. I’ve seen it. Tim showed it to me. But I don’t know how well it works, and I don’t want to publish some half-assed (as if this isn’t half-assed) description of the thing without some example pictures, of the adapter and from the camera… all of this assuming the damn thing works the way we think it should.

So hang in there. We have some clear nights and a waxing gibbous moon this week, so Tim and I are going to find some time in common to get some pics.