ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY WITH THE APPLE iSIGHT Last updated: 31 October 2007

This page documents iSight webcam comments, tips, and photos. Contributions welcome.

Subject:	ISight lens removal
Sent:	Tuesday, October 30, 2007 06:06:21
From:	Francis Vancauwenbergh (carrera.911@telenet.be)
Hello, I would like to use my iSight camera on an ETX125.
Is there a way to remove the lens without demolishing the iSight?

Greetings

Francis Vancauwenbergh
Belgium

Subject:	isight
Sent:	Monday, August 8, 2005 07:34:56
From:	tony Devereux (tonyeux@mac.com)
read your  bit about cutting the end off thanks going to try it tonight.
got a mean 8"
thanks for you help

tony and liz devereux Plymouth uk

Subject:	iSight for etx
Sent:	Wednesday, June 1, 2005 20:14:39
From:	Will Edwards (will@sprockets.com)
so i just bought a ETX 125 PE ( i wish they would just tell you in BIG
letters on the first page to RESET the autostar before you make yourself
nuts wondering why its supposed to be pointing at jupiter but instead
its pointing to your neighbors window).

Anyway, i started to play around with my iSight (mac) and discovered
something kind of cool that i thought i should share.

The iSight doesn't fit in the eyepiece holder BUT, if you take one of
the plastic containers that Meade gives you to store the eyepiece in and
cut off (with a hacksaw in my case) the solid end, you end up with a
tube that just happens to fit an eyepiece (with the eyecup folded back)
on one end and the isight on the other. Drop the eyepiece in your scope
and now you can see exactly what your eye would see looking THROUGH the
eyepiece. Whats great about this is that you can change the
magnification by just choosing another eyepiece.







Also, i downloaded a great program called iGlasses that lets you adjust
the settings on the iSight, you can adjust focus, brightness, hue,
saturation etc. and the best part is you can flip the image, or make a
mirror image so you can see up is up.

BTW, this process took all of 1 minute to do. just cut and your done.

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