Mod your WebCam in to a Telescope

Using a heat sink, webcam and other items you can make a nice telescope camera

When wanting to take pictures of the stars you often find that you will need to spend a lot of money to begin with buying the telescope, camera and other parts needed. By using a regular webcam from a PC you can actually create quite a nice camera for your telescope. You will need to have some skills with electronics to be able to take the camera apart and solder wires and connect parts to a heat sink. If you can do this then check out the video after the jump which explains the process on getting a cool webcam telescope camera.

Via: SimpleBrowser

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