I begin my astrophotography career with this crappy iPhone plus binoculars photo of Jupiter plus moons. Handheld phone binoculars on tripod. Don’t have an adapter yet. This was the best of like 10 shots.
Well gotta start somewhere.
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This video is slightly better. Wonder if I can grab the best frame from it 🤔
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surprised you can't get a thing that's like a suction cup attached to a length of optical fibre
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Well you’re talking about 2 things... a prime focus ccd camera (they run $60-$300 for basic ones)!and just a simple iPhone holder. I’ve ordered the latter. Just plain fiber isn’t a meaningful thing to insert there. You want to convert image to electrical signal before moving it.
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ah okay i was just imagining something that would suck onto the surface of the phone with a lens that would aim into a bundle of fibre that would go out to another lens onto the eyepiece
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I’m not sure optic fiber alone can be used that way. It needs lasers I thought? It’s not a sensor. Sounds like you’re suggesting piping the live photons passively from the image plane elsewhere. Like diverting rainwater from roof with gutters?
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Well endoscopes have active lighting going one way and the target is close enough for reflective illumination
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I think your idea could possibly work if the tejescopecend had some boosting like with a photomultiplier tube of some sort
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obviously there would be an interpolation problem packing the cylinders at the ends but at the same time it doesn't seem to matter for endoscopes
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Yeah even 1 megapixel implies a 1000x1000 square bundle if each fiber is one pixel. Unless each fiber can be more than 1 pixel
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