iPhone picture of the moon

Last time zaiah was in town, she bought me a cheap telescope from Walgreens. Atlanta being what it is (which is to say, hazy and overcast and generally hostile to Science), tonight is the first opportunity I’ve had to play with it.

Got this picture by holding my iPhone up to the eyepiece. Yeah, it’s a crap photo, but dude, it came from my iPhone.

24 thoughts on “iPhone picture of the moon

  1. Inspiring

    Just think how impressed the ancient astronomers would be, using a handheld mobile device to capture the image of the moon which can then be forwarded as an attachment to someone else via a text message. Imagine how much farther along in knowledge if this device had been available to the great astronomers of the Maya, or the Egyptians, or the Chinese. Or even Galileo.

    • Re: Inspiring

      Icon win!

      One of the interesting things about the future is that it happens to us without our even realizing it. Hell, when I got my first computer in 1977, I would not have imagined this sort of thing; the ancient Egyptians would’ve seen it as magic. (And, for all intents and purposes, it might as well be; any sufficiently advanced technology, and all that.)

      And we take it all for granted, without stopping to think about the incredible amount of knowledge and control over the physical universe, honed by centuries of curiosity and inquisitiveness to a very fine edge, it took to get here. We live in an anti-intellectual society that expects a new generation of smart phone every six months…isn’t that bizarre?

  2. Inspiring

    Just think how impressed the ancient astronomers would be, using a handheld mobile device to capture the image of the moon which can then be forwarded as an attachment to someone else via a text message. Imagine how much farther along in knowledge if this device had been available to the great astronomers of the Maya, or the Egyptians, or the Chinese. Or even Galileo.

    • That’d rock! iPhoto tracks the GPS position of any pic taken with a GPS-aware camera…now if only I could get it to talk to the Google Earth images of the moon…

  3. That’d rock! iPhoto tracks the GPS position of any pic taken with a GPS-aware camera…now if only I could get it to talk to the Google Earth images of the moon…

  4. Re: Inspiring

    Icon win!

    One of the interesting things about the future is that it happens to us without our even realizing it. Hell, when I got my first computer in 1977, I would not have imagined this sort of thing; the ancient Egyptians would’ve seen it as magic. (And, for all intents and purposes, it might as well be; any sufficiently advanced technology, and all that.)

    And we take it all for granted, without stopping to think about the incredible amount of knowledge and control over the physical universe, honed by centuries of curiosity and inquisitiveness to a very fine edge, it took to get here. We live in an anti-intellectual society that expects a new generation of smart phone every six months…isn’t that bizarre?

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