Jupiter & Io time lapse

[benthemiester]

@oxycodonez I cant do that. Your mom tore it to pieces.

[bushranger71]

Great work..very rewarding isn't it!! never tire of seeing Jupiter.

Thanks for the posting.

[dommen]

What would you recommend? A telescope with a mirror or one with a lens?

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

@dommen Up to 5 inches, lens telescopes are a good option. Over 5 inches and more, a reflector should be taken into account because a large refractor is very expensive and non-portable.

[benthemiester]

How big of a telescope would I need to see URANUS? Will it require more than six inches?

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

@benthemiester With a 6 inch telescope you will see Uranus like a tiny disc. To catch some detail, you would need 300mm or more.

[Taxi502]

@benthemiester cant u see the brown eye with the naked eye? sorry had to, too easy

[benthemiester]

@Taxi502 Cosmologist are actually thinking of changing the name of that planet just because of that dumb joke.

[Taxi502]

@benthemiester god i hope they dont

[Taxi502]

@benthemiester give me some credit. i didnt even go into the whole requiring a necessary amount of inches. i mean, your comment was served up on a silver platter

[benthemiester]

@Taxi502 No offense taken, but like I said before, after they change the name, no more silly jokes. It should happen by the end of 2014. Since my spouse is a member of the cosmological community I happen to know personally what that new name is going to be, if your interested.

[BloobleBonker]

@benthemiester I seem to have the same dirty mind as mikeyo2006. Very interested in the new name. Can you post it here? The video is great - didn't know a 6" reflector could do so well. I'm going to get one!

[benthemiester]

@BloobleBonker "Very interested in the new name"

Urectum.

[mikeyo2006]

@benthemiester haha!  this has to be a joke comment or is it ive got a dirty mind,

[darthgabriel97]

I think i will get a telescope on christmas, and if i don't i'll buy one and tejp my webcam onto the telescope plug the webcam in so i can record the images of for example: The moon.

[bayouastro]

@scottishnationalist

Filters! Filters! Filters!

[SOyouTHINKurFUNNY]

dude ur lucky to have this telescope :(

[SOyouTHINKurFUNNY]

how much it cost u for all dat?

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

@SOyouTHINKurFUNNY Not too much. A 6 inches reflector is cheap, around 300 US$. To capture the video, you may use a webcam like Philips TouCam that is under 100 US$. And you need also a computer, but that could be out of the budget.

[skyliner288]

What telescope and lens size do you use?

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

@skyliner288 A newton reflector 6 inches at F5

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

@scottishnationalist I couldn't. Visual observation uses to show much less contrast and details, unfortunately.

[teoulennon]

How are you able to see Jupiter so close? I have a 130mm f5.0 reflector (orion starseeker130) and jupiter is just a little dot when I look at it through a 10mm eyepiece!

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

When taking images through a digital camera you get automatically a kind of magnification due to the fact that the CCD sensor is very tiny.

This image size is effectively similar to viewing Jupiter at around 1000x.

[markuslebt]

dude r u kidding me this wasnt done with a 6`newton looks more like made with a scope at least double the aperture, how did u do this ?

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

No kidding. I swear to you. It has been made with a 6 inches reflector. But I have to say that I have seen even better images of Jupiter through a 6 inch at cloudynights forum by someone called zAmbonii . He is doing a great job.

[markuslebt]

im gonna do some afocal projection soon as possible thru my galaxy bob 3inch toy telescope, made some test shots at trees outside and they were pretty good... but only with a 20mm eyepiece... the cool thing is i can get extra magnification afterward when processing hehe

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

Good luck!

[Zeethr]

this is ridiculously awesome! thanks for sharing with us. kudos, you got skills!!!

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

Is that good or bad?

[raghavchaudhary99]

how do you record the telescope?

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

I used a free software called "EOS Camera Movie Record" that makes possible to record video with a Canon EOS 450d DSLR camera.

[Blakut]

nice one!

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

Thanks!

[rememberedlight]

Wonderful! I would like to do this. I have a Celestron C8 with eyepieces and a Canon EOS 450d, as well as Registax. How do you arrange your afocal optical train?

Thanks

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

I used a 14mm eyepiece and then the DSLR camera body (without lens) attached to the focuser with an Universal Digiscoping Adapter.

To record the video I use a free software called "EOS Camera Movie Record".

[pamedioses]

que expectacular!! como quisiera haber visto co un telescopio!! q hermosa vista!!

[CumputerPhysiscsLab]

Yes, Thanks!