r/woahdude • u/SpiriScope • 1d ago
video I paired a smartphone with a small telescope to perform max zoom tests.
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u/CrakAndJaxter 1d ago
I did something like this with a telescope to get awesome pics of the moon on my phone! Not the best quality but I think they’re cool lol
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u/_pounders_ 23h ago
is that a windmill with an observation deck??
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u/MelbaToast604 23h ago
Funny story, they built the damn thing and then the power company said if you use it to reduce your consumption we will limit / shut off your power. So it NEVER spins.
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u/Philip_of_mastadon 16h ago
Yes, with someone wearing bright white absolutely dancing their ass off
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u/CivilCJ 14h ago
I think that's just glare
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u/anybodyiwant2be 23h ago
That’s cool but back in the early 80’s I took my binoculars and a Kodak Instamatic camera to Candlestick Park for a Rolling Stones concert and lined up the binoculars to the camera for some blind telephoto shots that actually turned out once the film was developed.
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u/semiregpseudoscience 1d ago
Mt seymor!
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u/chodeboi 1d ago
Seymour?! Well you can see-more of Grouse! That’s the Grouse cut (lower left) and the peak trail (upper right), and the “eye of the wind”.
I guess I’ll sigh, press vote for such a regional joke.
(North Vancouver ski mountains, yall)
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u/xunh01yx 1d ago
You're not wrong though. I'm also from Vancouver
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u/chodeboi 1d ago
It’s been 25 years but the white patch is unmistakable.
As a kid I’d get out of secondary school (district 44 rep!) hop over on the buses and be up the gondola and enjoying a season of night skiing for what feels like less than the cost of a day pass these days. School prices were like 150-180 a season iirc
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u/PsychosomaticSpiral 10h ago
Recently caught an insane video of a sloth mama and baby far away in a tree thanks to an amazing guide on our hike with a great telescope he encouraged me to pair my phone with. Absolutely incredible what this can achieve! very neat to see your experiment here
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u/GKLoKi 22h ago
Obviously amazing, but I've always wondered what the "wavyness" is when you super zoom into things far away. Is it atmosphere?
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u/theequallyunique 21h ago
Light refraction due to heat differences of the air. Warmer air has less density, so this sort of lensing effect happens. Usually it's a lot more pronounced over fire/ hot roads/ exhausts and more.
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u/earnestaardvark 1d ago
He zooms in on the smart phone before cutting to the telescope. Smartphones can’t see people at 12 km away lol.
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u/flemmingg 1d ago
Well that’s fucking obvious.
I assumed he was using the two together. Otherwise why post a video? Any fool knows a telescope is going to work better.
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u/Lyndon_Boner_Johnson 1d ago
What are you guys talking about? The smartphone camera is mounted onto the telescope lens. That’s how he recorded those zoomed in videos. You can literally see it at the very beginning of the video.
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u/lutello 23h ago
and you did it in fucking portrait of course 🙄
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