@BIackwatch It would be impossible with my camera. One other benefit of videoing through the telescope is that at a high zoom like this - the Moon appears to move very fast because of the rotation of the Earth. The telescope can be set up to track the moon, so that it doesn't move. In this video, I manually moved where the telescope was pointing to look at different craters.
@RichardB1983 i was impressed to how close u got to see the moon , im wondering how your telescope and camera perform on a terestrial ground ? can you see peoples faces from very far away ?
@BIackwatch The theoretical best possible performance of my telescope is being able to resolve objects with a size of about 2/3 of an arcsecond - which equates to objects around 1km wide at the distance of the Moon. You would need very still air to be able to see this. The smallest craters easily visible in this video are about 5km (3 miles) across. For a terrestrial comparison, looking at crater Marius at 0:40 is equivalent to looking at a US penny coin from 200 yards away.
@RichardB1983 nice information there i didnt knew that , so your saying for terestrail use you need diffrent kind of telescope because you cant do it with this one
i always wanted a thing to see people at very far distance away
@Henllan Thanks Ian. Glad you liked it. The video sequences were shot with the camcorder through my telescope. The clever bit is where I can use a piece of software which takes about 60-100 frames from that video and "stacks" them - by aligning common features from those frames. It basically improves the signal to noise ratio - the more frames - the better the effect - which allows you to get a much clearer view. I've used these for all of the stills in the above vid.
who the hell names craters on our moon, is that important...lets move on and find other planets that we can inhabit....Over populated earth
jojo123469 3 weeks ago
whats teh optical zoom of teh camera ?
BIackwatch 3 weeks ago
@BIackwatch The maximum optical zoom of the camera is 30x
RichardB1983 3 weeks ago
@RichardB1983 so without the telescop u wont be able to have this image of the moon so close
BIackwatch 3 weeks ago
@BIackwatch It would be impossible with my camera. One other benefit of videoing through the telescope is that at a high zoom like this - the Moon appears to move very fast because of the rotation of the Earth. The telescope can be set up to track the moon, so that it doesn't move. In this video, I manually moved where the telescope was pointing to look at different craters.
RichardB1983 3 weeks ago
@RichardB1983 i was impressed to how close u got to see the moon , im wondering how your telescope and camera perform on a terestrial ground ? can you see peoples faces from very far away ?
BIackwatch 3 weeks ago
@BIackwatch The theoretical best possible performance of my telescope is being able to resolve objects with a size of about 2/3 of an arcsecond - which equates to objects around 1km wide at the distance of the Moon. You would need very still air to be able to see this. The smallest craters easily visible in this video are about 5km (3 miles) across. For a terrestrial comparison, looking at crater Marius at 0:40 is equivalent to looking at a US penny coin from 200 yards away.
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@RichardB1983 nice information there i didnt knew that , so your saying for terestrail use you need diffrent kind of telescope because you cant do it with this one
i always wanted a thing to see people at very far distance away
BIackwatch 3 weeks ago
nice iam waiting for my Meade 114eq telescope to arrive , its my first telescope :)
josechepe80 1 month ago
@josechepe80 Thanks. Hope you like the telescope when it arrives.
RichardB1983 1 month ago
Really superb. How on earth (great pun) did you manage to film the moon with such clarity ?
Henllan 2 months ago
@Henllan Thanks Ian. Glad you liked it. The video sequences were shot with the camcorder through my telescope. The clever bit is where I can use a piece of software which takes about 60-100 frames from that video and "stacks" them - by aligning common features from those frames. It basically improves the signal to noise ratio - the more frames - the better the effect - which allows you to get a much clearer view. I've used these for all of the stills in the above vid.
RichardB1983 2 months ago
This was great Richard, excellent clarity, and all the information to go with it. Thanks :-)
007vauxhall 2 months ago