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Saturday, July 8, 2006
The summer months are here and even though the sun stays up longer, thus prolonging the start of your star gazing, there is a lot to look at. Bending over all night to look into your eye piece all night can be tough and getting your eye positioned just right can be tough, too. Add kids to the equation and things become even more difficult. Forget about taking pictures of what you’re seeing, too.
Thankfully Aaron Adams had the courage to take his iSight off his Mac and figure out how to mount it to his Meade telescope. Because of his great efforts, you too can now take pictures of Jupiter and other heavenly objects.
Adams shows you step-by-step how to get your iSight onto a telescope. With a couple of O rings and an iSight, you’ll be all hooked up before it gets dark. Then adjust and play with some software and your MacBook, MacBook Pro, or any other Mac with a Firewire port and you’ll have the stars right there on your screen for all to see at the same time. Take a screen capture of what you’re seeing or better yet, record a QuickTime movie and share it with a friend or two via e-mail.