Last time 
zaiah was in town, she bought me a cheap telescope from Walgreens. Atlanta being what it is (which is to say, hazy and overcast and generally hostile to Science), tonight is the first opportunity I've had to play with it.
Got this picture by holding my iPhone up to the eyepiece. Yeah, it's a crap photo, but dude, it came from my iPhone.
zaiah was in town, she bought me a cheap telescope from Walgreens. Atlanta being what it is (which is to say, hazy and overcast and generally hostile to Science), tonight is the first opportunity I've had to play with it.Got this picture by holding my iPhone up to the eyepiece. Yeah, it's a crap photo, but dude, it came from my iPhone.
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Edited at 2009-04-08 10:11 am (UTC)
One of the interesting things about the future is that it happens to us without our even realizing it. Hell, when I got my first computer in 1977, I would not have imagined this sort of thing; the ancient Egyptians would've seen it as magic. (And, for all intents and purposes, it might as well be; any sufficiently advanced technology, and all that.)
And we take it all for granted, without stopping to think about the incredible amount of knowledge and control over the physical universe, honed by centuries of curiosity and inquisitiveness to a very fine edge, it took to get here. We live in an anti-intellectual society that expects a new generation of smart phone every six months...isn't that bizarre?
I think I want to make some kind of rig to hold the iPhone in place so I can get all sorts of iPhone astronomy pics.
Methinks I've been pening wayyyyyyy too much time on fetlife *lol*
Here's a picture of Jupiter someone caught with an iPhone:
I love living in the future.