a view of the moon from my new telescope. :D
a view of the moon from my new telescope. :D
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i got this from last night.
oops it screwed up here it is gain. ;)
Seeing it with your own eyes is far more beautiful.
Have you seen Jupiter yet? :-)
You may or may not see the bands of Jupiter. It depends on your eye site, the quality of the optics and the diameter of the telescope.
Saturn is also very impressive. It is tiny but impressive the very first time you see it.
NICE!!!
Glad to see that you are really enjoying your present. Now you are giving me the urge to go out and buy a telescope.
all i saw was jupiter, aldebaran, and the moon. :L its cloudy here now, it wont clear up until the 27th. :( where was saturn at? i may have not seen it.
oh. :I it was foggy earlier this morning, i wanted to see venus. :L
Saturn is hight more left to Venus in the morning sky.
If you have Stellarium or Starry Night then you can check your own sky atlas for your place.
The important thing is to pot your GPS coordinates right in Stellarium.
do you have to pay for it?
Stellarium is free:
this is my new telescope. :) i got this image from facebook
its a reflector telescope, but in real life its not thst big. :/ but it works. tell you that. :)
hahaha. :) if only it wasnt raining here. :( tonight the moon and jupiter come extremely close together.
Yes I saw it on Starry Night.
Bad weather here, so I can't take out mine.
And it is not located here, too much light pollution and too big.
I need a 45 minute drive to get to it.
Bigger means sharper images but bigger means also very heavy.
It is POURING here in the bay area too; BIG TIME!! But I ain't complaining LOL! I am truly enjoying it — The rain hitting the roof is sooooooo relaxing.
I hear what obaeyens is saying about the "light pollution", we have that here too, and in SPADES!!
If you ever want to star gaze where there is absolutely zero "light pollution"; go to the town of Tonopah, Nevada, which is about a four hour drive north of Las Vegas on U.S. highway 95. It is literally the darkest corner of America. LOL!
They have the The Tonopah Star Trails there which you might like to check out sometime if you are really in to star gazing.
yeah, thats when i saw jupiter, i saw the moons, but jupiter was a blob to my telescope. until i focused ut, i saw stripes and things. i want to take a look at venus too.
Cool you could see the bands of Jupiter.
Very dim objects will be greyish in your telescope. Your eyes are not sensitive enough for colour that is why you see it in grey.
And in a lot of cases you will only see it when you do not directly look at it. Because they are faint objects.
Seeing Saturn was for me the thing that got me hooked on astronomy.
what bands? are they rings?
Congrats on the scope! That's a pretty nice one.
By "bands" Obaeyens is referring to the cloud bands. You should be able to see them with that scope. They will appear as dark parallel lines on the disk of Jupiter, roughly aligned with the visible moons.
"Do you ever think about things you do think about?" - Henry Drummond to Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind
oooh ok i know what your talking about. there thoase little lines on jupiter i saw too. :)
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