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From Webcam to Planetcam: Planetary Imaging on the Cheap
Jupiter and Io shot using the Flandrau Observatory telescope and a converted webcam. All photos by author unless otherwise noted.
It’s a question we get often.
“What sort of gear did you use to capture that?” folks ask, imagining that I’m using a setup that required a second mortgage to pay for.
People are often surprised at the fact that I’m simply using a converted off-the-shelf webcam modified to fit into the eyepiece-holder of a telescope, along with freeware programs to control the camera, stack,and clean up images. (…)
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© David Dickinson for Universe Today, 2014. |
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