On 08/09/12 20:13, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
On 08/09/12 18:22, James Luhn wrote:
Please don't ya'll laugh too hard at me. Has anyone ever mounted a camera on a beam? Now I am not trying to see AO40, but I would like to simply double check the location of my beam for eme. If anyone has mounted a camera on a beam, I would be interested in what you used. Yes, I know all about beam width vs the moon. I just hate to call CQ with my beams pointed to the ground due to some Murphy type of failure.
I'd probably use something like an el-cheapo outdoor wifi CCTV camera, and feed 12V up the tower (well, you're going to have that for your preamp *anyway*, right?). If you go down the route of expensive-unless-secondhand "proper" CCTV cameras you can get a range of lenses, including zoom lenses.
If you want to centre up on the moon, consider screwing a telephoto converter on.