[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by Rob_K

This is what I thought Ken, but on the NexImage forum (Yahoo) there's a guy who has built an adaptor out of PVC pipe to snuggle the NexImage webcam against the EP and claims that it works afocal. Details, photos etc have been posted. Here's the links, but you'll have to join to see them of course.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/n...e/message/2278 (description)
http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/grou...os/browse/9517 (photos)

Cheers -

Rob,

I used a similiar idea. I used a cardboard tube from a roll of Glad Wrap. Exactly the same size as the EP lip where the rubber eyecup goes and also a perfect fit over the Toucam adaptor. There is a description and pics of it in this site somewhere from ages ago

I had so-so success with images, but also finding the exact length for the tube was a total nightmare.

I attached it to my 9mm EP in my 12" dob and Jupiter over-filled the whole FOV! The image was poor due to the seeing being magnified heavily.

I also used it with a 15mm and it was slightly better.
When I tried the 25mm it was the same size as normal Toucam use, so it wasn't worth using the tube.

On nights of extremely excellent seeing, the 9mm would work, but geez, the seeing would have to be almost perfectamundo!
And I also had trouble keeping the image in the scope as Joop was zooming thru the FOV!!!