Hi!whats the secret?I recently bought an ETX 125...can't get that Autostar thing work.And tonight i was looking at Jupiter with 9mm eyepiece and 2x barlow and still it wasn't as good as your video.i could barely see stripes on jupiter and three moons of it.any advises?thank you!
@polarpol You will need to make a camera mount from one of my etx diy camera mount videos. Then you will need an eyepiece that does not introduce newton rings, and a digital camera with atleast 10x optical zoom. Take the 2mm camera lens off an old cell phone, It will make the best eyepiece you can get for maximum magnification.
@darkknight302 you will need a high grade 3mm eyepiece with large field of view to get jupiter like this in the eyepiece, or you can build your own by stacking the meade eyepieces, 4mm to 9mm to 25mm should be good enough. Seriously try stacking your eyepieces, just look at the moon to get the right focus, keep the silver barrels on the eyepieces.
It would have been nice if it was aurora but it's just slight dispersion of light caused by Earth's atmosphere. The left bottom of Jupiter is all red, but right top is blue. Have you ever looked at Venus through a telescope? The effect is much easier visible on Venus because that planet was much lower above the horizon. You can also see it on moon craters by the way. If the moon is low above the horizon.
Blue tinge top, red tinge bottom. lens colour fringing.
RangerParus 3 months ago
Hi!whats the secret?I recently bought an ETX 125...can't get that Autostar thing work.And tonight i was looking at Jupiter with 9mm eyepiece and 2x barlow and still it wasn't as good as your video.i could barely see stripes on jupiter and three moons of it.any advises?thank you!
polarpol 4 months ago
@polarpol You will need to make a camera mount from one of my etx diy camera mount videos. Then you will need an eyepiece that does not introduce newton rings, and a digital camera with atleast 10x optical zoom. Take the 2mm camera lens off an old cell phone, It will make the best eyepiece you can get for maximum magnification.
AmpleLight 4 months ago
@AmpleLight i wanna pick this up today.. does jupiter look better through the scope than this video?
darkknight302 3 months ago
@darkknight302 you will need a high grade 3mm eyepiece with large field of view to get jupiter like this in the eyepiece, or you can build your own by stacking the meade eyepieces, 4mm to 9mm to 25mm should be good enough. Seriously try stacking your eyepieces, just look at the moon to get the right focus, keep the silver barrels on the eyepieces.
AmpleLight 3 months ago
definitely sensor fringe
chikotube 1 year ago
It would have been nice if it was aurora but it's just slight dispersion of light caused by Earth's atmosphere. The left bottom of Jupiter is all red, but right top is blue. Have you ever looked at Venus through a telescope? The effect is much easier visible on Venus because that planet was much lower above the horizon. You can also see it on moon craters by the way. If the moon is low above the horizon.
krisDM3000 1 year ago
Great video,
What kind of scope and cam used?
prex61 1 year ago
@prex61 Meade etx125 with a vertical projection camera mount, and a sony dcrtrv140 dv8 camcorder.
AmpleLight 1 year ago