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Astronomy, Photography

Hacking a webcam for long exposure astrophotography

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I finally got around to hacking a Philips SPC 900 to enable it to take long exposure images suitable for astrophotography. The modifications are fairly well known. The approach I took is a mixture of the http://www.boltonastro.org.uk/Members%5FArea/Projects/spc880conversion.pdf from Bolton Astronomical Society and http://www.yesyes.info/index.php/diy/philips-spc900-webcam-lx-and-ampoff-mod/ . The circuit between both approaches is roughly the same, I followed

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Dublin at night

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Its been a while since I posted anything here so heres a few shots that I took recently around Dublin.  Trinity College   Famine Statues   Custom House 

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Indoor torch photography

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Recently I bought a 5 million candle power torch for photography. The intention was to use it to ‘paint’ nighttime photos. However today I thought I’d try it out to light a boquet of flowers.     This shot was taken of a single rose in a pint glass. In order to get the dark

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