Jupiter (and Europa) through a 7" newtonian telescope

[metsfan784]

this is amazing!!!!

[claton95]

amazing

[14goomba]

europa sorry

[14goomba]

at 0:23 there is a flash for half a second above eropa . It looks like its from a flash from a possible explosion deep in space.

[giboiao]

Great video. What telescope are you using?

[sexykitten0627]

Jupiter is amazing 

[dtkachuk]

Fantastic! Such a giant!

[MegaFancyboy]

HI. I have a newtonian telescope and when i want to look at jupiter i cant focus on it.

Why?

[balzerbarn]

@MegaFancyboy Can't you sharpen Jupiter's edge? I assume you can focus Jupiter's Moons at least, starting from the lowest magnification eyepiece. Moreover, I would try on our closer crescent Moon first in order to reach a reasonable focusing: that won't leave any doubt to you.

[Misterb0z]

Europa... 

Exciting stuff!

[NenadE46]

Interesting :)

[balist0]

SCIENCE!

[548789]

That blue point on the left side is Neptune?

[maddcapp100]

how much did the telescope cost?

[SoSolidXgutxonRS]

I am about to get this telescope!! Btw is 7 inch 76mm? cuz im gettin newtonian from argos.

[balzerbarn]

@SoSolidXgutxonRS 76mm is about 3 inches only.

[pichulick]

can you please tell watch my video and tell me if that is jupiter? i would really apreciate that. by the way how much is your telescope?

[BeyondNeptune]

isn't it upside down?  The hurricane is in the northern hemisphere in your picture

[echizenn808]

Amazing...

It looks soooooo close,

Its like, It make you think  Its just out there :3

[barbm001]

at 0:24 another moon is seen on europa mate. its either callisto or ganymede.

[balzerbarn]

@barbm001 A single pixel flashed at 0:24, no other moons were inside the field of view visible during that capture.

[whitehawk38]

wow! thats what jupitar looks like through a telescope. i thought you could only see it like a star with a telescope. that is amazing.

[balzerbarn]

@whitehawk38 I think it's like a 1 euro coin face as seen one hundred meters away, consequently a telescope can easily show Jupiter much larger than a star point. Greetings.

[dk2853]

@balzerbarn yeah nice scope. Even with my 4'' schmitd-cassegrain which I bought used off craigslist for $70 can show surface features and the galilean moons,although jupiter looks much bigger and more magnified in your 7''

[balzerbarn]

@dk2853 I use 200-350x depending on seeing, in visual works. A webcam shows apparently a much larger disc because of its small ccd size, so that a standard 9 mm eyepiece and a distance to sensor of few cm are quite enough for a giant Jupiter. Anyway clear skies and clear optics, plus excellent seeing are needed to catch the larger images. Possibly bigger scopes than mine should help also...TY4 viewing and posting. Greetings

[alcolol]

is that a tennis ball ?

[markzilla6969]

nice capture

[Logopolist]

this is very nice work

[balzerbarn]

@Logopolist thank u 

[ohshutyourmouth]

how much was ur telisocpe?

[DrVegasIII]

Might be a dumb question : Jupiter has several dozen moons so why is Europa the only one visible here??

[balzerbarn]

@DrVegasIII Because Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are easily spotted even through a small binoculars. Nothing strange you can put them into an avi by a webcam joined to a telescope.

[BeeGreeen]

is europa that little dot about 2 inches left from jupiter, its under "O" in the title

[renzokata]

nice image. what was the magnification? i have a newtonian too, but it's only 4'' :(

[AkiThePirate]

@renzokata Aperture is only for light gathering.

To get the magnification, divide the focal length of the primary mirror/lens by the focal length of the eyepiece.

With a 4" and ~80 magnification, you should get a lovely image.

[Edsan91]

@AkiThePirate That is somewhat true! But no soo... Aperture is for light gathering and Resolution. The bigger the aperture you have the more Resolution u have. I remember looking through my 5 inch reflector at jupiter and it was an amazing sight! But I got a Schmidt cassegrain celestron 8 inch and when I looked at jupiter again not only did I get a wider field of view cause of the aperture but it was even more sharper! with any telescope though You can see its moons!

[Edsan91]

@AkiThePirate Any telescope now adays 80mm and up you should enjoy the planets and loads of nebula star clusters etc!. Even with a 4 inch like u said you have a very good time! I still remember viewing saturn with my department store 50mm refractor. I could easily see the rings. I was like WOW man. And I found it on my own :) No software. Now I use software to find them easier. But now since the rings are edge on to us we can't really see the Cassini division. I can't wait to see it Now.

[AkiThePirate]

@Edsan91 That's how I got into astronomy, too.

My uncle gave me his 70mm refractor, and I pointed it around a few night and thought "This sucks."

Luckily, one say I pointed it at Saturn. That changed things. :D

[Edsan91]

@AkiThePirate awesome!

[Antardrews]

does it look sharper when u look through it?

pls answer

[balzerbarn]

@Antardrew It looks smaller for sure, try to stay away more than 1 meter from your screen and see what happens. Some details come out through processing because eye cannot take one thousand snaps and add them to a final image. A webcam allows to take a video or a sequence of frames. Then you add the best only within a range of selected.Perhaps this video is better, even if it's too yellowish due to filtering:

The Planet Jupiter, the GRS and Io through a telescope

[fredyalexp]

yo tengo un 7¨ y no he logrado imagenes como esta tu camara es comprada o tu la fabricaste? verdaderamente espectacular

[perltech]

Heh heh, this is great for a toucam!

[TechnoDude147]

in 0:24 or in 0:23 you can see like a small satelite watch there carefully and you will see it it's less than a micro second!!!!!!!!! so awesome!!!!

[ScottZirpolo]

Is that Ganymede to the left? It doesn't look close enough to be Io. Might be Europa due to the reflection. I know astrodynamics but not astronomy...Argh.

[balzerbarn]

@ScottZirpolo It's Europa. 0:14

[rexy004]

that moon is very far away from jupiter

[tori7022]

or you'd just be sucked in.

[Oscar847]

5inch with 900mm focal length newtonian reflector, how will Jupiter look like? plz help

its shipping next week

[balzerbarn]

@Oscar847 It depends on the quality of scope, mount, seeing, webcam...A commercial 5" newtonian is a starter telescope. I've never seen through a 5".

[Obama4Prezz]

@Oscar847 i think it'll be much the same, remember to play around with the eye pieces.

shorter focal length in an eye-piece will enlarge the picture but will reduce the quality and brightness of the image.

[Oscar847]

@Obama4Prezz

eeeeee wrong.

ur talkin bout diameter there

[Obama4Prezz]

what i wrote was correct,

shorter focal length in an eye-piece magnifies the image more. Ex. 10mm Plossl makes an image much more magnified than a 25mm one.

take a second look, i wasn't talking about diameter

[ClinicalAttacked]

A really fine capture of Jupiter! ^_^

[balzerbarn]

More than 20000 views. Thank you all, folks. :-D

[SuperNaggy]

Skywatcher Explorer 200p is the beginner scope i went for because "Sky at Night" awarded it the Best Buy in its class with a 93% score...And it retails around the £200 mark.

[djmisplacedmarblesTV]

is there a scope for around £200UK that would be decent enough to grow into and add accessories like something to enable taking photos and different lenses for seeing really deep.

thanks

[matty2213]

to be honest if your Spending £200 on a scope, you might be betteer getting a Good pair of Binoculas.

The main part you want on a telescope is Apeture, if you can get anything over a 6" in diameter, viewing will be good, but at 200£ you will be looking at 4". I currently have an 8" apeture, and viewing is great, my scope was £400 - on an EQ5 base. If you get a scope for £200 do not get a motorised one, as your money is being spent on the motors and not the actual scope itself. Good Luck

[djmisplacedmarblesTV]

thanks for advice. ...tis only for family fun ...all of us are newbies so seems OTT to go more than 200£ just now..

Celestron 130EQ is 160UK ish (non motor version-5" aperture ) and the NexStar 114slt is going abou 220UK -- 4.5" aperture ).

are these reasonable ok choices for starter scopes? If not wwhich are as 200 is max amount to spend...on anything like this tbh

appreciate advice, thanks

[archannjus88]

can I see jupiter with a 130mm relfector?

[aleksandarbuncic]

Sure, Jupiter is visible with much smaller devices,and you will be able to see all Jupiters moons with this reflector just point him in right direction:-)

[rastamaniakTHC]

ummm......he wont be able to se all Jupiters moon...only the Galileo ones...(4-Io, Europa, Ganymede,Kalisto)..

[aleksandarbuncic]

My bad,i said all but i was thought just on Galileo 4,not all 63.

[uggles2]

yes, you should be able to see jupiter and its satelites but i doubt you will see it with great enough quality to actually distinguish surface details

[rastamaniakTHC]

130mm refractor its equal something about 200mm reflector...so he will se details etc..

[Jas0nphilly]

I have a 130mm reflector, and I see jupiter in great detail everynight, I go up to 160x magnification w/ no problem on most nights. I was looking at the orion nebula last night w/ my new uhc filter, it was truly awesome.

[Thejirka64]

Fajn video.

[grimwatcher]

wow! you can see the great red spot, that's awesome (for those who've never used a telescope, telescopes display everything upsidedown, so that spot at the top of Jupiter is the famous structure, a storm, very much like a hurricane which has been raging for as long as 400 years!). so a 7 inch huh? now I know what my next investments will be

[balzerbarn]

Average 8 inch commercial newtonians (i.e. a quarter of yellow-green wavelength, peak-to-valley, corrected optics) should perform even better.

[grimwatcher]

@balzerbarn

thank you

 Happy holidays!

[furiousharry]

i can't tell if i saw Jupiter or not cause i can't zoom very far, but it was kind of brown, and had what i think was 3 very close by objects which i think where its moons, the 2 closest where quite small, but the farthest one was rather large... did i see jupiter?

[gustavor12007]

hola muy bueno el video!!! te felicito, que telescopio usastes?????

[Zeethr]

awesome vid. thanks for uploading and sharing with us.

greatness

[ryandave86]

holy shit i think jupiter stole our moon

[Cloudjumper]

Jupiter and beyond the infiniti.

[coalreigoncoalcracke]

I was born in a sub zero hospital on Europa too.

[muck55]

Think i might be able to see the great red spot near the middle of the top dark band.

[barbm001]

that moon looks like europa or maybe io

[balzerbarn]

It is Europa.

[vind3x]

It would be great if you could take the 'Red Spot' someday. Good video with the moon wandering aroun the planet ;)

[PositiveKinetik]

Robert Miles, producer of the excellent doc Fastwalkers, has been to Jupiter and said the oceans and colors are incredible with flourescent purples and pinks. You can check his interview with Art Bell on youtube. Very interesting interview. Awesome view of Jupiter in this clip and thank you for posting!

[oceanlover407]

nobody has been to Jupiter.

[dilzpunk17]

@oceanlover407 nasa will never think of going to jupite,r where do u think it will land? jupiter has no land it just a gas that surrounds there. tyxs

[SAMMYJS991]

YEAH........OK.

a Human went to Jupiter - and lives to tell about it??

yeah, ok , sure - whatever.

[rastamaniakTHC]

if someone woulg go to Jupiter, the pressure there would smash him to dust.

[PositiveKinetik]

did you check out the interview?

[rastamaniakTHC]

no i don't have time for this shit

[Obama4Prezz]

umm, you are aware we've never gone to Jupiter, and if someone did, they'd be crushed by the atmosphere

[PositiveKinetik]

as i said, robert miles, producer of the EXCELLENT documentary 'fastwalkers' , is sharing his story of his travel there, which you can listen to if you WANT to. the planet is radiant with incredibly gorgeous colors of flourescent pinks, blues, lavenders, with a silvery ocean.

his interview with art bell on coast to coast is on utube.

also, you should see nasa hacker Gary McKinnon's interview on Project Camelot, for a very DETAILED summary of what he found.

[Obama4Prezz]

i saw everything you suggested.

and as I said before, you can't "go" to Jupiter and live to tell about it.

Also, Gary's interview was about hacking not anything you were talking about.

Are you still going to say that you can see the Oceans on Jupiter?! Do you know what the pressure is like there? Do some proper research, study Jupiter like an astronomer or a cosmologist, not a UFO seeker...

[PositiveKinetik]

thanks o4prezz, i am doing massive reserach as a human being, and am delighted in what i am discovering ;)

[DarkTemp0]

to say the leat :)

on venus you would be crushed

on jupiter "crushed" is an understatement :)

[g3nd0]

venus is less dense with a smallr gravitational pull than earth, also i think getting anywhere nears it atmosphere u wud get burnt to a crisp as the entire planet is volcanic.. do ur research

[DarkTemp0]

i did my research, and the atmopheric presure on venus is about 100 times higher then ours, so yes it would crush you, and yes i know venus is the hottest planet, hotter then mercury, but in my post i was talking about pressure, and i still said jupiter is the king

[PimpXXXGuitarist]

Good vid...

[destroymen105]

super shawsome lawsome opassum

[harristhegreat1]

how much would a 7 newtonian telescope cost and where would i be able to get one?

[balzerbarn]

You'll easily find larger scopes than mine

[harristhegreat1]

yeah,but how much would a 7 newtonian or above cost.

[balzerbarn]

Prices range widely. I would start considering nothing less than 2500 US$. But this is only a personal (very personal) opinion.

[Germanboy567]

7 inches arent that much. Maybe a 11-13 but not a 7 inch telescope.

[balzerbarn]

My personal unveiled opinion included, in order to get interesting results, a better mount than mine, a larger scope than mine (250 mm, i.e.), a better (and possibly mono) cam than mine, a good rgb filter set, a practical filter wheel, a good focuser, a motorized focusing knob and other commodities up to 2500US$. With no safety about optical and/or mechanical quality, after all...

[DarkTemp0]

in other words buy hubble :P

kidding

did you try processing this vid in registax ?

i would presume you would get a nice image from it

[Chrisjr2007]

My telescope,8" Dobsonian Reflector $400 :)

[PimpXXXGuitarist]

I built my 8" NEWT myself...

[ebrown890]

sweet!!

[trulybazlol]

wow nice

[MrCalhoun]

It is a weird feeling looking through your telescope and seeing this ball with red stripes in the sky while you think of the fact that this this the largest and most massive object besides the sun in the solar system.

[dakotafrank]

makes me dizzy thinking about it!

[damiasebaticus]

I assume your using an EQ mount but are using a Barlow also?

[balzerbarn]

Of course I use an equatorial mount. I use an eyepiece joined to the webcam.

[RJL738]

Thanks for showing this. Jupiter is more than 1,450 times the Earth's volume. Jupiter has at least 63 known moons.

[CANARVONKID]

4 moons and 59 moonlets and counting!

[AcousticNeon]

'WOW' i have an 8" newt and jupiter looks nothing like that...Cool.

[amazingdany]

If only we could a find a way to harness the energy from the red spot's storms back to earth, free electricity for everybody until the end of times!

[RUCOTI]

7" newtonian wow! can u please tell me what eyepieces you used for this awesome view of jupiter?

[balzerbarn]

Hi, it's a quite common 9 mm orthoscopic. Nothing special, indeed.

[gl33k]

how did you place the webcam ?

behind the eyepiece so ?

i have a 5.1"newt nlaptop and touchcam fun , i can't wait to try this !!

[shmudge]

how much did the telescope cost you?

[balzerbarn]

...Almost nothing, it's made of poor things.

But my telescope required a lot of elbow grease.

[Puckeffideb1]

i really admire u bcoz u have seen Jupiter with ur own telescope

i have to watch it here

thanks

[raynmune]

where is europa?

[balzerbarn]

It is the faint dot about one Jupiter's diameter on the left.

[hecdaca2007]

does the camera enhance the image or when you look through your telescope it (jupiter) looks that size? also how big is the aperture and the focal lengh? awaesome vid thanks for sharing

[balzerbarn]

It's about the same view you look at through a magnification of 450 or 500x.

[ThaSchwab]

You can see it at about 3 seconds in, to the left of Jupiter.

[MrMausser08]

its on the left of jupiter and looks like a tiny white dot

[raynmune]

awesome

[balzerbarn]

Very sorry, taqyon. I had no intention to remove your comment, it was an accident. I'll answer soon.

[solidsnake1972]

what model of toucam are you using. awesome video, 5 stars.

[balzerbarn]

Thank you, it's an "old" Touc Pro

[solidsnake1972]

what software did you use to capture it with

[balzerbarn]

I use avirecord - nothing special. The camera driver panel appears the same in many capturing programs.

[taha65466]

Wow very nice, I have a 4.5" newtonian and I can see around 2-3 cloud bands with my telescope. However, whenever I take a video of Jupiter it washes out the cloud bands (very bright). I've tried lowering the brightness for the camera but it made no difference. If i point the camera on and off from the eyepiece I can see a very brief second of the cloud bands until it adjusts to the normal brightness. Any suggestions? :)

[balzerbarn]

Hi thanks, I know many people reach best results through a 4.5". Does your webcam driver panel allow to choose exposure, gain, contrast or definition? You've to play more with them, switch to manual settings when you are not aiming the moon; possibly try to work within 2500-4000 mm (equivalent focal length), if you have a clock drived telescope.

[redshift40]

Nice job. Was this taken just before the LRS was swallowed up by the GRS?

[balzerbarn]

Thank you...It was taken before 0h UT of July the 4th

[balzerbarn]

Thank you. The satellite on the left is Europa. I hope to get a better seeing.

[blobrana]

Fantastic upload