Meade 4000 f3.3 reducer & iPhone

[1CM69]

Hi all,

I've managed to get hold of a Meade f3.3 reducer and seeing that it's designed for very small chip CCD cameras I have been wondering if I could perhaps hook my iPhone up to it & get pleasing results via video recording and then running this vid through PIPP.

i would have thought the the iPhone sensor would be small enough for this purpose.

My only image capturing device at the moment is my DSLR which does not capture video. 

I'll post up any result that I get. 

[ngwillym]

I doubt it - you'd need to remove the lens from the iphone camera

[1CM69]

30 minutes ago, ngwillym said:

I doubt it - you'd need to remove the lens from the iphone camera

How about if I used a webcam?

[ngwillym]

Again - possible if you remove the webcams lens

[Cornelius Varley]

2 hours ago, 1CM69 said:

Hi all,

I've managed to get hold of a Meade f3.3 reducer and seeing that it's designed for very small chip CCD cameras I have been wondering if I could perhaps hook my iPhone up to it & get pleasing results via video recording and then running this vid through PIPP.

i would have thought the the iPhone sensor would be small enough for this purpose.

My only image capturing device at the moment is my DSLR which does not capture video. 

I'll post up any result that I get. 

The Meade f3.3 reducer was designed for use with webcam sized sensors ie Meade DSI cameras or similar so should be useable with a webcam, assuming the camera is sensitive enough for DSO imaging, otherwise lunar imaging only.  The resultant lunar images would not have the same degree of detail as creating a mosaic though because you would be capturing a larger area onto a small sensor. Using the reducer with a mobile phone wouldn't work because you need to image through a lens (afocal imaging) with a camera with a fixed lens.

[Demonperformer]

As a bit of an aside, I have this reducer, and have always found the f5 option (path 1B in the instructions) to produce MUCH better results than the f3.3 option (path 1A). So it might be worth trying this if you get no joy at f3.3.

 

Edited September 11, 2016 by Demonperformer

[Dave In Vermont]

I've been curious about this as well. The old Meade 3.3 FR's are pretty hard to come by over here - but I've have one. And I've been tinkering with it, off & on, for awhile - nothing conclusive though. I'll be most interested to hear/read your findings. I have 5 different types of video-cams at my disposal. So any results will be fascinating to me!

 

Thank's for posting!

Dave