iSight Telescope Mount and Jupiter

Who knew that an iSight Camera could be combo’d with a telescope to produce a contraption that would be perfect for star gazing with your significant other? This was actually done before with the aim of taking a smoking picture of Saturn, but the problem was the camera had to be held still and holding something still for a long time, could be quite a challenge. So with that, the guys responsible for this decided to embark on a mission– produce an iSight Telescope Mount and capture the biggest planet in the Solar System– Jupiter.

Mounting an iSight camera is no easy and cheap task…it takes tremendous amounts of patience, time, and money. When the mounting part is over, you’d have to slave for quite a while as you locate celestial bodies that you may want to capture, and sometimes the weather is a bit uncooperative so you’d have to wait for a proper time to take ’em photos.

This is the finish product of the iSight Telescope mount. As you can see it is plugged into the PowerBook and ready to take pictures. Fortunately, their hard work paid off as they were able to take a picture of the giant planet. Kudos to these guys!

Via Aaron Adams

Who knew that an iSight Camera could be combo’d with a telescope to produce a contraption that would be perfect for star gazing with your significant other? This was actually done before with the aim of taking a smoking picture of Saturn, but the problem was the camera had to be held still and holding something still for a long time, could be quite a challenge. So with that, the guys responsible for this decided to embark on a mission– produce an iSight Telescope Mount and capture the biggest planet in the Solar System– Jupiter.

Mounting an iSight camera is no easy and cheap task…it takes tremendous amounts of patience, time, and money. When the mounting part is over, you’d have to slave for quite a while as you locate celestial bodies that you may want to capture, and sometimes the weather is a bit uncooperative so you’d have to wait for a proper time to take ’em photos.

This is the finish product of the iSight Telescope mount. As you can see it is plugged into the PowerBook and ready to take pictures. Fortunately, their hard work paid off as they were able to take a picture of the giant planet. Kudos to these guys!

Via Aaron Adams