My New Celestron Nexstar 6 SE

[dhm794]

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). 

[Darvince]

Kol, that Jupiter image came out very decent for an iPhone.

[atomic7732]

* 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

[Darvince]

Kol, I knew that. I was kolkolkol'ing you.

[ConfuZzled]

My telescope is a National Geographic one. It sucks.

[blotz]

National Geographic sells telescopes?!

[atomic7732]

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?

[Darvince]

atomic, No.

[atomic7732]

Doing it anyway

[atomic7732]

C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)

[tuto99]

C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)

Oops, missed that.

[atomic7732]

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.


the GRS rising over the edge of Jupiter


moon motions over 20 mins