Author: jonathanscottjames

Webcam: It's a cell phone image sensor on AUSB interface.

Rating: Good (4 out of 5)

Date: 8 February 2024 at 12:35

Advantages of the webcam:
Seems to work with Windows 10. I hope there's a way that I can use this on a telescope either with a cell phone or a laptop or a notebook or a tablet to project an image through either a lens system or some binoculars or something onto some kind of a screen that's held in place by a tripod and then somehow I would set the phone out on the end of a sheet metal aluminum sheet metal funnel that the thickness of a bear can maybe two feet long or maybe a foot long,, and put some kind of a screen on it at a 45 degree angle and then set the cell phone in some kind of a box all held together by some piece of steel like a steel conduit pipe or something that

Disadvantages of the webcam:
It gets very hot,, the image sensor gets hot,, the USB interface gets hot. I've given it quite a bit of abuse and I think there's a bad connection in one of the conductors in the ribbon connector. It's very fragile.

Author’s comment:
Seems to work with Windows 10. I hope there's a way that I can use this on a telescope either with a cell phone or a laptop or a notebook or a tablet to project an image through either a lens system or some binoculars or something onto some kind of a screen that's held in place by a tripod and then somehow I would set the phone out on the end of a sheet metal aluminum sheet metal funnel that the thickness of a bear can maybe two feet long or maybe a foot long,, and put some kind of a screen on it at a 45 degree angle and then set the cell phone in some kind of a box all held together by some piece of steel like a steel conduit pipe or something that would hold it all very very steady. The last eclipse I filmed,, 20 mile an hour winds continuously blew the tripod assembly. Maybe next time I'll put the whole apparatus inside of some kind of a tent to protect it from the wind.