Article:		Making Movies with the Apple iSight
Subject:		iSight Image Capture
Date:		2003-10-03 17:06:33
From:		gandalf1313
Can someone please help me?I know I'm in the right place! I want to use my iSight to capture real-time pictures as a camera for astonomy photos (astrophotography). I already have adapted my iSight to my Celestron 11" GPS scope. I just need software that will allow me to view the image on the screen of my Ti-Book, and then capture a frame (or more subsequent individual frames) onto my hard drive, save them in a hi-resolution format, and be able to export them to something like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements for later stacking/modification, then final printout/saving of the stacked file. Someone out there must know how to do this (i.e., just the capture of the individual frames and ability to save in different graphics formats). Any detailed advise would be greatly appreciated. Please email me personally : Zach Hilgers drz13@earthlink.net

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• iSight Image Capture
  2003-12-23 11:17:10  philipgood [View]
  
  
  I just downloaded iRecordNow from versiontracker. It looks like it should work very well, you can adjust the focus and and the file compression. It would be nice to be able to adjust the exposure time. I will check it out and get back to you or contact the author.
  
  How are you mounting the isight to your 11GPS? I also have the N11GPS!
  
  Have you used Keith's Imagestackker? I have used it with large files from my Digital EOS. It does a good job but seems to have some kind of memory overun that grings my computer to a standstill, even after quitting.
  
  Let me know how your progress is coming because I am VERY interested in getting this to work. What we really need is some OSX programmers who would code up an interface and autoguiding for Mac and Nexstar.
  
  Phil

• iSight Image Capture
  2003-11-20 19:34:15  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  The comment about using iChat is wrong. The best thing to use is QuickTime Broadcaster to capture video to a movie, and then use Keith's Image Stacker (http://www.unm.edu/%7ekeithw/keithsImageStacker.html) to composite the frames together. This seems to work well.

• iSight Image Capture
  2003-11-01 13:15:26  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  a way to do this is to go into ichat av, if you have it, get everything setup, and then go into the video menu and press take snapshot.
  
  hope this helps,
  
  
• iSight Image Capture
  2003-11-18 14:48:04  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Make sure you expand your window to get closer to 640x480. Also remember that the iSight inverts the image horizontally so you look to yourself as you do in a mirror. Make sure you flip it back before publishing any new discoveries. :-)