From: "Tim" <tjp314@pacbell.net>

Date: May 10, 2005 6:03:20 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Which Astroiidc option best?

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@o...> wrote:

Not now with Apple's iSight out their. Actually shortly after Apple did 

the iSight, most companies stopped any future production them and EOL'd 

all of them. The only exception was Unibrain who are still producing 

cameras.

A while back, I did a search to see if anyone was using the iSight for astroimaging (since I 

have one).  I only found one or two citations of people who tried it at all - not quite 

enough encouragement for me to make an adapter to try mine on my scope.  Well, that 

and the fact that my scope is more than 6 feet from the computer.  But I'll probably fiddle 

with it at some point just for hoots.  Have to shoot afocally, though, and probably pick the 

eyepiece projection magnification value high enough to overcome the  autoexposure's 

tendency to saturate the image...   ...probably more hassle than it's worth, in the end.

But I do wonder what might happen when the number of iSights out there reaches a point 

where used units are low enough in price to see amateurs taking them apart and tossing 

the lens assembly...   ...but again, probably not woth the effort.

-Tim.