Antares Occultation

[xdeadlyxshroomsx]

What's with all the lip smacking?

[toniiii9]

Antares is 14,000 times brighter than the sun

[shasha1873]

Great job dude.

[TheAbercool]

its almost as big as my dick

[Shiplodicus]

@TheAbercool you need a viewing device to focus in on that too?

[halomaster22323]

COOL! I've never seen Antares the star in real life before!

[halomaster22323]

COOL! I've never seen Antares the star in real life befor!

[ellis0896]

what camera is that? the zooms crazy and great video:)

[astroguyz]

@ellis0896 That was just an Evario 20GB HDD camera... the trick was its aimed thru an 8" Celestron telescope.

[ellis0896]

@astroguyz aahh right:) awsome

[astroguyz]

@obesehairydog We can; Canis Major is a constellation rising at about 10PM in the east around this time of year.

[astroguyz]

@obesehairydog Antares is approx. 600 light years distant; in contrast, the Moon is only 1 light second away.

[markps78]

many thanks

[Superpolo1]

You have some nice zoom on that camera :P

[FTNieto]

I really love that video *________*

[XBAGREMX]

nice well done

[Nihalatak]

Sweet how you can see all those craters* on the moon :) They must be like mountains if you did stay there in human size ^^

[fanaticforanime]

I want a telescope, sad life. :(

[MrQuest4knowledge]

How much is your telescope. Price range?

[2012Video]

damn moon rotate so fast

[PianoNick]

Great observation!!

But why do you call this an 'occultation'? Antares doesn't hide anything underneath it's appearance does it? Or do you mean the moon who does the occultation? Otherwise I don't understand this remark.

Thanx!

Note: since I'm Dutch, English isn't my native language, so I even had to look it up (occultation) ;-)

[astroguyz]

@PianoNick Probably a more exact way to state it would be "An occultation of the star Antares by the Moon."

[QuiteDrunkOnGin]

Is atmospheric turbulence the reason why the moon appears to wobble as well? because the camera and telescope are on earth?

[astroguyz]

@QuiteDrunkOnGin Correct; it was a very humid night and the Moon was fairly low to the horizon; that just added to the atmospheric turbulence.

[UrbaNTurbaN5]

Sweet! 

[TheGreenMonkeyMHFC]

I see antares right now... from my window :)

[antaresp1]

O.o

[lmonto]

cool

[7SwitzerlandAustria7]

Antares is just so big

[0darkG]

@7SwitzerlandAustria7

if you think antares is big, search up VY canis majoris

[The0Burger0King]

Awesome! The moon looks amazing too!

[gersonhr2310]

ALUCINANTE

[gnikko23]

if sun will be compared to antares, sun will be like a cell and antares is you ^^

[dentonbrowne]

@gnikko23 this is what i see at night, i live in md and i can see it most the time under the moon or beside it, it flashes red so i thought it was a galacy

[gnikko23]

@dentonbrowne

tinyurl(dot)com/yf4cdl3

check how big is antares :)

[dentonbrowne]

@gnikko23 i know how big antares is but nice try trying to give me a virus, i have norton and windows sec so it wouldnt even matter

[gnikko23]

@dentonbrowne

woah what virus ur talking about men? thats a clean site, and i just stumbled upon it, just search at google images "Approximate size of antares", sorry if the site do have virus as you said, i dont have any antivirus =)

i just trust WOT add-on on firefox

[dentonbrowne]

@gnikko23 lol oh, ive had ppl try to send me sites with viruses on them and my sec would tell me a virus was detected and remove it, our sun would be the size of a pixel compared to antares

[cuzzo78]

Good work! Great video mateI I saw saturn and its rings through a telescope a few months back and it great, i could of stared at it for ages, it didnt look real. suks that the US has pulled the pin on the constelllions project!! its the ultimate furture

[damaged01]

imagine how far out the liquid water zone is around that beast

[scott93257]

Antares is HUUUGEE...1113 Billion Kilometers in diameter...what would that equal out in miles? Absolutely MIND BOGGLING...Imagine if a civilization were able to exist there...one could never know

[MrWajax]

Wonderful video! It was amazing to see this, thanks for posting it up!

5 stars + favorite.

[0CitizenOfTheWorl]

A sundown over the moon! Antares is the biggest! what are u using!

[astroguyz]

This was simply a JVC camcorder shooting afocally through an 8" SCT reflecting telescope...the toughest part is aligning and holding a sharp focus.

[spacetracker93]

Excellent video, very impressive. amazing!!

May be is just me but it looks like Antares is blinking so fast. Why is that? Also if you happen to have a video of vy canis majoris or vv cephei, like this one, please let me know.

[astroguyz]

Thanks...the reason Antares appears to blink is atmospheric turbelence; the target was low to the horizon and it was a very humid night. If I take any other occultation vids, I'll post 'em here!

[yellowmadness54]

@spacetracker93 VV cehpei is pretty far out.

How about the pistol star?

[mongoose100989]

you are a true astronomer my friend.

[astroguyz]

This was done by shooting with a JVC digital video camera afocally through an 8" Celestron SCT telescope. Not that difficult, just a bit touchy at high power. The fog was the biggest threat!

[rgborj]

Wow! how did you take that shot? Amazing!

[grenda5]

so cool, i never knew how huge Antares is, thanks for sharing this.

[aaronzTipsy]

cool indeed

[yourboycal]

How do you know thats antares? how do you know its not just some random one ? how do you confirm your looking at what you think your looking at?

[astroguyz]

Antares is the brightest star, Alpha Scorpii, in the constellation Scorpius. The full moon was in that constellation that night. Few stars would appear that bright near the moon limb. Also the occultation of Antares went off right when the US Naval Observatory Almanac said it would. Amateur astronomers tend to know their way around the sky the way most folks know the route home...plus the scope that this was shot through has a computerized database, not that we needed it for such a bright star.

[colorconnection]

you can really see how the star is just a single point of light... it winks out completely in an instant... there is no chance to see only a portion of it vanish.

really, really nice telescope man. And what a beautiful night.

[TheStarsAlso]

I am very new to astronomy (just bought a telescope) and as you can see if you take a look at my video, my astrophotography skills need vast improvement! Any tips or suggestions that you can give me, sites to visit, books to read, cameras to use, etc would be appreciated. I have a Celestron 130SLT. Please help!

[heavenandearthgod]

I saw the red moon 6th June 2009 in BC Canada

[unaka2012]

Nice! I watched it here in TN with binoculars. Very Cool indeed! Missed the reappearance.

[TheStarsAlso]

Very cool.

[TheStarsAlso]

Very cool.

[Telescopemaker]

Wish I could have gotten it here too... almost, but not quite! Too many clouds- the bane of both shallow and deep sky guyz!

Nice job- sounds like you got the timer marks in there too, so there's real science value to what you did too!

[voltagedrop]

Very cool. It was too cloudy here to see Antares.