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So, yesterday I went to Tucson to find a telescope, and today I assembled it and went out to see what it could do. There are no images cause my camera decided to fail, and I'm getting an eyepiece camera in a few days anyway. I first went to Jupiter, and it didn't fail to amaze me, as the clarity with the 6 SE is so much better than my Nexstar 114. I could very very clearly make out the bands on Jupiter. I also went for a quick view of Uranus and Neptune, both were fuzzy blue balls of gas. They weren't very interesting but the fact that I could see them is cool. I had gotten Uranus with my 114 before. I also checked out Luna (I'm gonna call it Luna and you can do nothing about it, deal with it), in fact I did get a few images of it... Then I decided to see if, with a bit of doubt, due to light pollution, my telescope could see any nebulae. I first tried the Helix, but it was near Luna and that may be why I couldn't see it. Next I tried the Hercules cluster, which was a nice faint ball. Then I got the Ring Nebula, which was quite clear to see as a ring. I also got the Andromeda galaxy, with a distinct bright core area. As well as the Blue Snowball, a planetary nebula. Then I decided to see if (with previous success on nebulae and a galaxy) I could see a comet, so I searched the coordinates of Garradd, but when the telescope went there, I couldn't see it.
So overall I think it's a great telescope, it's much better than my 114, for sure. I do like the focusing knob thing, it's less sensitive, so on higher magnifications it is easier to get focused.
Pictures will come in a few days.
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I'm glad you like it. (not sarcastic) :)
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Sweet Jesus son! I wish I had that money to spend on a telescope.
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i have something like this kol (http://cn1.kaboodle.com/hi/img/2/0/0/89/b/AAAAArlm_Y8AAAAAAIm_tw.jpg?v=1194672157000)
its like barely 2 feet long and has a 3 inch opening :P (it was only like $30 it think)
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Refractors suck, Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes ftw!
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I have a telescope. I don't know what kind of telescope it is... :-[
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Long tube small aperture, short tube big aperture, or neither? Also where is the eyepiece? Back, side, etc?
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I have a telescope. I don't know what kind of telescope it is... :-[
the answer...is in your skirt-
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... I don't mean that by "kind". I mean the brand... ;)
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I just use my dad's Meade ETX 60AT. It sucks. The focusing knob is a tiny little metal screw and the gears are broken so I can't use the Autostar remote.
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Well I got my StarShoot today. :D
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I just use my dad's Meade ETX 60AT. It sucks. The focusing knob is a tiny little metal screw and the gears are broken so I can't use the Autostar remote.
That's stupid.
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I just use my dad's Meade ETX 60AT. It sucks. The focusing knob is a tiny little metal screw and the gears are broken so I can't use the Autostar remote.
That's stupid.
wait, what is wrong with that?
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I just use my dad's Meade ETX 60AT. It sucks. The focusing knob is a tiny little metal screw and the gears are broken so I can't use the Autostar remote.
That's stupid.
Sure is. Using the manual methods of finding celestial objects is extremely tedious, especially since once you try to lock the damn thing in it shifts over completely. Took me 20 minutes just to spot Jupiter. I think I'll fidget around with it this weekend and see if it can be fixed.
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Using the solar filter I purchased for my telescope... I bring you...
SUNSPOT IMAGERY!
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I found some cool stuff online for enhancing images of deep sky objects:
http://www.astronomyphotos.com/PhotoshopTechniques1.htm (http://www.astronomyphotos.com/PhotoshopTechniques1.htm)
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If this is your first, then that's quite good. (That's actually larger than your first telescope should be... but with all this light pollution nowadays ;) )
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More sunspots. ;D
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Nope. It's been 75 minutes since I took those images, about 50 mins since I came inside.
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There is a camera installed in the telescope? Or did you somehow move the camera into the eye scope.
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The Orion StarShoot is made so that you can put it where the eyepiece and the eyepiece 90 degree reflection thingy goes.
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would you say the images look exactly as they do when you peer through the telescope, or is the image degraded, lacking color, and or quality?
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Well the thing is, the camera's view is probably 4x magnified from the view through a 25mm eyepiece. So what I see from the telescope can't really be compared, but I would probably say they are similar (assuming you could see the image in the eyepiece 4 times it's size)
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So I took two images from my iPhone which surprisingly got the moons of Jupiter, and an image of Jupiter (resized to scale) from my StarShoot camera, and I put them into one image. This is the result!
Edit: I messed up on the first image, uploaded new one.
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nice, whats that little ...edge near jupiter, it looks cut out, darker and brighter
Also the first split-second i saw that image, my subconcious screamed google doodle.
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The iPhone had a glary washed out white Jupiter, I placed the proper image of Jupiter from my actual astrophotography capable camera over it. I tried to make it circular like what they do with the sun sometimes, putting the two coronagraphs together and then the solar disk in the center.
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I recently looked at Jupiter through a 12" Dobsonian fitted with a 4mm eyepiece, 2x barlow lens, and different color filters. It's pretty amazing, but I think my favorite is the Orion Nebula (M42).
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Kol, that Jupiter image came out very decent for an iPhone.
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* atomic7732 facehoofs
an image of Jupiter (resized to scale) from my StarShoot camera
The iPhone had a glary washed out white Jupiter, I placed the proper image of Jupiter from my actual astrophotography capable camera over it
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Kol, I knew that. I was kolkolkol'ing you.
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My telescope is a National Geographic one. It sucks.
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National Geographic sells telescopes?!
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Saturn on iPhone. This weekend or sometime before I'll get my proper astrophotography camera set up and I'll take some better images.
Also I can see at least 4 of the moons some of the time. Last Saturday I saw Titan, Rhea, Dione, and Tethys, but last night (earlier today, to my body) I only saw Titan, Rhea, and Dione. I think because Tethys was a bit close to Saturn I couldn't see it. I'm trying to mark my observations down in a log so I can basically predict their locations and everything. Rederive the Saturnian satellites' orbits from my own telescope. I can do that, right? :P
(http://i.imgur.com/4rE2w.jpg)
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atomic, No.
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Doing it anyway
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(http://i.imgur.com/qvYYTi7.jpg)
C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)
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C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)
Oops, missed that. :P
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I'm getting an eyepiece camera in a few days anyway
Nearly four years. Four years and I never really had success with it aside from with the sun and the moon and other frustrations but tonight...
Tonight I triumphed.
(http://i.imgur.com/cc6OWak.png)
the GRS rising over the edge of Jupiter
(http://i.imgur.com/r0ysDhm.gif)
moon motions over 20 mins