I have a much weaker telescope, but it's strong enough to get a glimpse of 4 moons around it, but not strong enough to where you can see the cloud bands of Jupiter.
I was looking at jupiter last night with my 5.1" reflector, it was small at 65x magnification, but you can easily see the cloudbands. and with a filter its quite beautiful, even through a small telescope like mine in a light polluted area. I cant wait to get out to a dark site
@Jas0nphilly I have a 5.1 inch reflector too! And yea You can see it at that mag! But I say try higher mag! A 5.1 inch scope can go as high as 250x mag!(Mine goes up to 307x! :D but I doubt I'll get to that mag unless My sky is really clear and dark! And unpolluted! too much light! I did that one time and what a difference from a light polluted area! And at 120x! thats the mag I look at jupiter at! thru the 5.1 inch it looks amazing! So does saturn! and right now mars! I just saw it awhile ago!
@Jas0nphilly Just imagine at higher mags! :O Thats what I like about the planets and moon! that we can see them even through light pollution but if u go in an unpolluted, real dark place! It will look even better!
Got this scope. I wish I had better skies where I live without traveling an hour+. I took it to the peak 8-9 parking lot in Breckenridge. I was looking at M13 and a defense department spy sat went though my field of view.
Be aware that the Orion Dobs are not actually "go to", they're push to. They have encoders on each axis and after you align the scope, you pick a target and the scope directs you to push left, right, up or down until you bring a counter to zero. It is a good setup, but don't be letdown because it doesn't move on its own. I have one and don't use the controller at all anymore. Trust me here, buy the biggest mirror you can afford, it is so worth it! Good luck!
That's why I'm getting an 8" Orion Newtonian as a bare tube, so I can put it on a go to mount in the future. I was so looking forward to a Dob until I figured out that I could put a bare tube on any mount I wanted, including a Dobsonian mount, which I can build myself.
I've seen Jupiter with my 10" classic many times and each time it's different(usually because of atmospheric disturbances) transits are fun to watch since you can see movement in realtime. when seeing is very good the bands and the festoons really stand out. Now is a good time to see Jupiter because another "spot" is supposedly forming and you can tell changes have happened if you've seen Jupiter before(I would reccomend at least owning a 10" scope and higher for sweet viewing)
Read the description of this video,he has a 11" Celestron which is a goto scope(when properly aligned will go to any object he selects and will track(stay with it) for hours. One of the reason I wanted a goto than getting a dob which is a push type scope(in order to stay in viewing range of object you must keep pushing dob to keep up and it doesn't track) and you have to manually search for objects.
That was a fantastic video. I ordered a Meade 8" Lightbridge about 4 weeks ago and am still waiting for it...apperently they are shifting warehouses. :(
man i look at jupiter with my telescope and it looks huge and and it was a 50mm eye piece and then i went down to a 40mm so i could see a lower view!!!! i just love space!!!!
Everytime I look at Jupiter it gives me creepy vibes with a dash of beauty. I always imagine floating around the large planets in the voids of space, lol. They're the interesting ones! Earth is so boring, but we need it so I shouldn't bitch. I just wish we didn't need oxygen and could float around the entire Universe at ease....
I purchased a 6" reflector scope about 3 years ago and was able to see saturn for the first time at a time when it was most visible. I could barely make out that it had rings. The rings looked like bulges. It was
Wow that was awesome. I did not know you could see it so clearly and also the moons. I wonder what the storm on the spot would look like if we could ever send a camera there hehe.
Wow! My husband has a telescope, but we haven't been out in a while to see much. It may be time to bribe my mom into watching the kids for a night lol. I think telescope is much better than ours because I cannot remember him ever focusing on anything past Mars. Very cool. Thanks for the look.
No, you can see detail and the ring divisions clearly on Saturn with a telescope like this. You could also resolve Uranus and Neptune to a disk, but you wouldn't really see any detail. If you were lucky, and knew where Pluto was, you might be able to spot it with the help of photography. It would just be a point of light however.
nice vid. u even got the yellow tag dat warns u not to look at d sun still. haha. i wish i had an 11' tele. saw jupiter last nite wit a celestron 5' newtonian tele. beautiful planet n d galilean moons..jst amazing!
i was shocked the day i bot a cheap telescope to look at the moon and pointed it a jupiter first out of curiousity, shocked at actually being able to see it , and then again at being able to see its moons and the spot so well. that night was the beginning of a love affair. jupiter, the pliades, orion nebula. lots of great stuff to look at.
whats odd though is that over the past couple nights the 4 moons were in diffrent places, but this one close is at the same point 1:30-2 oclock. I thought it was something on the lense, but its position is constant even if i move. no matter where i put jupiter in the view, the "moon" is still in the same spot relitive to jupiter. i wrote it off as a moon, but when i run stellarium it only shows 4 moons of jupiter, just as i saw them. whats this extra rock? any ideas? D=60mm F=700mm
I took mine out the other day. its smaller but i can still see the moons. last night there were 3 on the right and 1 to the far left. however, when i went to a 10mm and even a 4mm i saw a rock real close to jupiter. i couldnt see it when i could see the oter moons, but when i got close to jupiter there it was, about 1:30-2 oclock. im new to this so im not really sure what it is but its really cool.
WOW!This may sound silly but,Ive always known Jupiter's out there in the solar system,but seeing it in the flesh(or gas i suppose)is amazing.I want a telescope now.
Duh!!I mean have never put my eye up to a lens of a telescope and looked at it at night.I get that all the pictures in books and stuff come from a telescope(of course) but I have never looked through a telescope at it.I hardly thought people floated up there with there digital cameras!!!!
This makes me want to pull out my Newtonian telescope. The thing is so big and lunky though that I only take it out when I plan to use it for an extended duration. One of these days I'll invest in a Schmidt Cassegrain; I find them far more portable.
That's awesome, I was lucky enough to view the Shoemaker-Levy comet collision by chance one night whilst out shopping, a kindly Chemist had a scope setup outside the store. It was my first real telescope experience, I was blown away!
Actually, if you get away from the city lights, you can see the four "Gallilean" moons - the same ones you can see here - with a simple set of department store binoculars. You need a decent telescope if you want to see the color bands on the disc though.
wow.... just wow is all i can say at the moment... moving on, i've been meaning to get a telescope for a while know, but with the rubbish weather and cloud cover we've had this summer its sorta put me off! seeing this makes me want a telescope more... the beauty and the majesty of our solar system, our galaxy and of course our universe in my mind doesnt have a word to describe it....... Fantastic!
so awesome. i want a super huge cool master telescope...as of now i have to be happy with my cheapy CSTAR refractor. jupiter was the first thing i found, it was so COOOL!
You are the coolest scientist on YT. Thanks for all your vids and explanations. As you say, Beauty in the Universe. Hard to see the moon transit shadows but got the idea. 5*s of course.
Beautiful! Too bad this year's opposition of Jupiter occurred at a really far-south declination. I'm stunned that you were actually able to resolve a transit with that camera to the eyepiece and all that atmospheric turbulence!
Wow, I never thought you could record the details of Jupiter and its moon with a transportable telescope and a handheld digicam. My mouth dropped open when I saw this. But I have to say, I was already amazed when you took a video through binoculars. So maybe I should do more experiments with "fresh optics" myself.
dear TF nice vid, though the last bit with the moons wasn't quiet easy to see, but what i find amazing were the shots with the five moons in the beginning. Very nice Picture.
And ofcourse i now have a better grasp of how fast jupiter is actually spinning. 1/12h for about lets say a quater or a third of the ah.. scope?
for this big plannet an amazing circular velocity isn't it?
Is your telescope motorized? At this magnification you should be able to see the earth rotation (Jupiter should constantly move out of the image in the eyepiece.
Secondly: If you don't like the shimmer then look at planets during a cold and cloudless winter night. Nights during winter might not be as good for astronomy when it comes to temperature, but the problems with the atmosphere get the smaller the colder the air is.
Nice work TF i was waiting for the telescope bit, you got some good shots of jupiter, it must have looked even better first hand (Jelous i only have a 6" dobs reflector)
"ahhh the smell of fresh optics" lol
SaturnAndItsRings 8 months ago
great stuff man
canonxsi79 8 months ago
i just saw Jupiter, pretty light planet for me.
PeaceRocker5 1 year ago
Anybody look at Jupiter lately? .... Its southern belt has dissappeared.
emgee65 1 year ago
im guessing those 4 "star" looking things next to jupiter when u zoom in are one of the 60 some moons of jupiter..
XxMEGAMINDxX 1 year ago
Thundry jupiter
SadCarnage1224 1 year ago
I have a much weaker telescope, but it's strong enough to get a glimpse of 4 moons around it, but not strong enough to where you can see the cloud bands of Jupiter.
ftolmsteen 1 year ago
Hi very nice video, can you tell me what kind of eyepiece you used and also the type of camera . Thanks
yoda6677 2 years ago
Very beautiful! 5 stars.
AngelicLove21 2 years ago
I was looking at jupiter last night with my 5.1" reflector, it was small at 65x magnification, but you can easily see the cloudbands. and with a filter its quite beautiful, even through a small telescope like mine in a light polluted area. I cant wait to get out to a dark site
Jas0nphilly 2 years ago
@Jas0nphilly I have a 5.1 inch reflector too! And yea You can see it at that mag! But I say try higher mag! A 5.1 inch scope can go as high as 250x mag!(Mine goes up to 307x! :D but I doubt I'll get to that mag unless My sky is really clear and dark! And unpolluted! too much light! I did that one time and what a difference from a light polluted area! And at 120x! thats the mag I look at jupiter at! thru the 5.1 inch it looks amazing! So does saturn! and right now mars! I just saw it awhile ago!
Edsan91 2 years ago
@Jas0nphilly Just imagine at higher mags! :O Thats what I like about the planets and moon! that we can see them even through light pollution but if u go in an unpolluted, real dark place! It will look even better!
Edsan91 2 years ago
AMazing images, nice vid.
JetsMets96 2 years ago
yesterday night, my brother an i, we watched jupiter too threw his telescope. we saw 4 moons. but your telescope is much better than ours.
greetings from germany
valolentin 2 years ago
thank you for these Jupiter images
albase2012 2 years ago
Got this scope. I wish I had better skies where I live without traveling an hour+. I took it to the peak 8-9 parking lot in Breckenridge. I was looking at M13 and a defense department spy sat went though my field of view.
owenowen 2 years ago 2
how much do you pay? I'm thinking of getting an Orion Dob (go to) or one of the Celestron Nexstars.
liltd87 2 years ago
Be aware that the Orion Dobs are not actually "go to", they're push to. They have encoders on each axis and after you align the scope, you pick a target and the scope directs you to push left, right, up or down until you bring a counter to zero. It is a good setup, but don't be letdown because it doesn't move on its own. I have one and don't use the controller at all anymore. Trust me here, buy the biggest mirror you can afford, it is so worth it! Good luck!
taylortownmayor 2 years ago
That's why I'm getting an 8" Orion Newtonian as a bare tube, so I can put it on a go to mount in the future. I was so looking forward to a Dob until I figured out that I could put a bare tube on any mount I wanted, including a Dobsonian mount, which I can build myself.
NsHatch 2 years ago
I've seen Jupiter with my 10" classic many times and each time it's different(usually because of atmospheric disturbances) transits are fun to watch since you can see movement in realtime. when seeing is very good the bands and the festoons really stand out. Now is a good time to see Jupiter because another "spot" is supposedly forming and you can tell changes have happened if you've seen Jupiter before(I would reccomend at least owning a 10" scope and higher for sweet viewing)
Zorack10 2 years ago
500th 5 star rating!, well done with the explanation thanks for explaining about the telescope
kaanxxx 2 years ago
that is awesome!
Green2241 2 years ago
Nice Shot
bosb33r 2 years ago 2
Oh yes! Reminds me of when I had a 5 inch newtonian back in 97. Doctors said it was inoperable. Just kidding!!!
The most fascinating object to target was the comet Hale/Bopp. I learned a lot through astronomy, and loved it!
kristofer58 2 years ago
wait now right now jupiter has 9 moons because coments destroyed all but 9
Smartkenni12 2 years ago
dude it has like about 63 moons not 9
LightFromADeadStar 2 years ago
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no those 63 moons got destroyed but all 9 of them
Smartkenni12 2 years ago
dude what are taking about
LightFromADeadStar 2 years ago
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ok all the 63 moons got destyoed and comets but it didnt destroyed nine of them
good this that lo didnt got destoyed
Smartkenni12 2 years ago
You are stupid. get off the internets dude.
Zorack10 2 years ago
jupiter has 61 moons
Smartkenni12 2 years ago
that's it? lol i'm sure they'll find sum more....
imagesk8r6969 2 years ago
i just got a cheap teloscope from sears and i can see the moon clear as day it is so amazing, im jsut waiting to find jupiter
alldressed2455 2 years ago
what kind is your telescope? and you have videos on youtube of it??
reply please
bulky360 2 years ago
Read the description of this video,he has a 11" Celestron which is a goto scope(when properly aligned will go to any object he selects and will track(stay with it) for hours. One of the reason I wanted a goto than getting a dob which is a push type scope(in order to stay in viewing range of object you must keep pushing dob to keep up and it doesn't track) and you have to manually search for objects.
Zorack10 2 years ago
how many moons does it have?
alldressed2455 2 years ago
hahaha:
"haaaaa the smell of fresh optics"
Crunch0r 2 years ago
I did not know the atmosphere makes it shaky looking
PlanetDip 2 years ago
"atmospheric turbulence"
vbar44 2 years ago
That was a fantastic video. I ordered a Meade 8" Lightbridge about 4 weeks ago and am still waiting for it...apperently they are shifting warehouses. :(
sfsgsw666 2 years ago
lucky you!!
liquidus2172 2 years ago
I've never seen a planet with such resolution in "real time". I swear I'm gonna cry when that happens.
frodo82 2 years ago
congrats, you just looked 43 minutes back in time, lol.
shawman121 2 years ago
JUPITER MY FAVORITE PLANET!
spencerproracer08 2 years ago
Awesome!
paulusmagirl 2 years ago
wow thanks, friend, for this video!
Liina1986 2 years ago
Beauty, thanks so much for posting this. I have never seen a transit like that before.
room128 2 years ago
when I saw one of these at night I pressumed was Jupiter i thought " can I see the moons around that " and thought no, I was proved wrong. Brilliant.
Agui007 2 years ago
transits must be very frequent, considering.
LyriMetacurl 2 years ago
Jupiter has the large majority of all the angular momentum in the Solar system.
LyriMetacurl 2 years ago
Jupiter & Venus are my 2 Favorite planets
gaiaj01 2 years ago
Wow, I've seen 2 or 3 of your videos and I already want to buy a really kick ass telescope. This looks so fun.
coolantmanuscript 2 years ago
Holy shit, the Jupiter is spinning really fast
namfamily2202 2 years ago
"Holy shit, the Jupiter is spinning really fast "
The day length is 10 hours, which considering the size of it is incredible.
ytmoog 2 years ago 3
that IS fast. indeed.
namfamily2202 2 years ago
man i look at jupiter with my telescope and it looks huge and and it was a 50mm eye piece and then i went down to a 40mm so i could see a lower view!!!! i just love space!!!!
natertater0702 2 years ago
Everytime I look at Jupiter it gives me creepy vibes with a dash of beauty. I always imagine floating around the large planets in the voids of space, lol. They're the interesting ones! Earth is so boring, but we need it so I shouldn't bitch. I just wish we didn't need oxygen and could float around the entire Universe at ease....
Cannedmeat420 2 years ago 4
thats so bad ass dude Im so jealous. I can't wait to get a better telescope.
RandyLayhea 2 years ago
I purchased a 6" reflector scope about 3 years ago and was able to see saturn for the first time at a time when it was most visible. I could barely make out that it had rings. The rings looked like bulges. It was
a very humbling moment.
Nice Vid Tfoot.
WisdomVendor 2 years ago
Thanks for that, jupiter is my favorite planet.
I need to save for a good telescope...
fmaneko217 2 years ago
Wow that was awesome. I did not know you could see it so clearly and also the moons. I wonder what the storm on the spot would look like if we could ever send a camera there hehe.
llstevej 3 years ago
that was awesome thunderf00t, I think we needs m0ar
kuycethgdxgds 3 years ago
Wow! My husband has a telescope, but we haven't been out in a while to see much. It may be time to bribe my mom into watching the kids for a night lol. I think telescope is much better than ours because I cannot remember him ever focusing on anything past Mars. Very cool. Thanks for the look.
Varistra 3 years ago
I nearly fainted when I saw the price of that scope!
I wanted to save up for one but, jeez! Might take me a while.
Guess I'll have to deal with my cheap-o dobsonian until then.
sirkamon 3 years ago
Amazing. I was just thinking that Galileo (or was it Kepler?) used much less sophisticated devices and made their mind about what they were seeing.
FHB71 3 years ago
Thunderf00t, Do you love the smell of fresh optics in the morning? 0:25
Blazinhieghts 3 years ago
what camera did you use to take this video?
Chrisjr2007 3 years ago
you sound so descovery like
superscatman64 3 years ago 3
Love the video:)
I have a Orion XT8 and I m gonna buy a Celestron CPC 11" next 2 years:)
Ive been looking for a video like this:)
Chrisjr2007 3 years ago
think about it we humans have made telescope to see very far away or see other planets and this is one of them.
TheGreatGamerX2 3 years ago 3
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darkmagecer 3 years ago
AWESOMe
legendaryPokedex 3 years ago
Very impressive! Beautiful shots and video even if it was the first time at eyepiece.
JessicaTG2008 3 years ago
sweet!
kick808gs 3 years ago
Great counter-wieght xD
And great video!
sumfamousperson17 3 years ago
Dear god. That is just sweet.
missanime00 3 years ago
haha 'its spinning like a son-of-a-bitch'.
Great videos thunderf00t, very informative and interesting to watch, so many thanks for sharing. matty.
MattyMozart 3 years ago
there is no substitute for teleview eye pieces!
gobblegobblechew 3 years ago
is fresh optic smell is not healthy, CUT THE HABIT!
=D great informative stuff! =D thanks for sharing
ccaptorchen 3 years ago
So I guess seeing Saturn and beyond is out of the picture for recreational telescopes?
Quickets 3 years ago
No, you can see detail and the ring divisions clearly on Saturn with a telescope like this. You could also resolve Uranus and Neptune to a disk, but you wouldn't really see any detail. If you were lucky, and knew where Pluto was, you might be able to spot it with the help of photography. It would just be a point of light however.
Pingletons 3 years ago
nice vid. u even got the yellow tag dat warns u not to look at d sun still. haha. i wish i had an 11' tele. saw jupiter last nite wit a celestron 5' newtonian tele. beautiful planet n d galilean moons..jst amazing!
Dezarus2100 3 years ago
I've been reinspired to buy a telescope. Your videos, both in this and the Thunderf00t channel, are fantastic. You are quite the incredible person.
Cheers,
Matt
sykCalduil 3 years ago 2
great :) thanks a lot!
now i know what i want for my birthday ;)
dmk1978 3 years ago
sick telescope
it8nky0u 3 years ago
i was shocked the day i bot a cheap telescope to look at the moon and pointed it a jupiter first out of curiousity, shocked at actually being able to see it , and then again at being able to see its moons and the spot so well. that night was the beginning of a love affair. jupiter, the pliades, orion nebula. lots of great stuff to look at.
great post.
MpowerdAPE 3 years ago 4
i know what you mean, its the best feeling in the world ( or universe ) lol:)
sarahlambo 3 years ago
whats odd though is that over the past couple nights the 4 moons were in diffrent places, but this one close is at the same point 1:30-2 oclock. I thought it was something on the lense, but its position is constant even if i move. no matter where i put jupiter in the view, the "moon" is still in the same spot relitive to jupiter. i wrote it off as a moon, but when i run stellarium it only shows 4 moons of jupiter, just as i saw them. whats this extra rock? any ideas? D=60mm F=700mm
jfl187 3 years ago
I took mine out the other day. its smaller but i can still see the moons. last night there were 3 on the right and 1 to the far left. however, when i went to a 10mm and even a 4mm i saw a rock real close to jupiter. i couldnt see it when i could see the oter moons, but when i got close to jupiter there it was, about 1:30-2 oclock. im new to this so im not really sure what it is but its really cool.
jfl187 3 years ago
WOW!This may sound silly but,Ive always known Jupiter's out there in the solar system,but seeing it in the flesh(or gas i suppose)is amazing.I want a telescope now.
gcmaverick 3 years ago 2
you have never seen a picture of jupiter?
AZNGoSu 3 years ago
Course i have seen a picture of it.I meant i have never seen it through a telescope!
gcmaverick 3 years ago 5
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durr-- what do you think the pictures were taken from?
enigmas00 3 years ago
Duh!!I mean have never put my eye up to a lens of a telescope and looked at it at night.I get that all the pictures in books and stuff come from a telescope(of course) but I have never looked through a telescope at it.I hardly thought people floated up there with there digital cameras!!!!
gcmaverick 3 years ago 6
This makes me want to pull out my Newtonian telescope. The thing is so big and lunky though that I only take it out when I plan to use it for an extended duration. One of these days I'll invest in a Schmidt Cassegrain; I find them far more portable.
Great video as usual :)
lupine73 3 years ago
great video
jazzloverpr 3 years ago
I didn't realise Jupiter appeared so squashed. Amazing stuff.
pjpitstop 3 years ago
the moons are really cool!
JesusRape 3 years ago
Can you see any closer with this?
AdVikesAd 3 years ago
Very interesting. Thanks for uploading.
90sHappyHardcore 3 years ago
Can you film M31 thru it?
KosmynC64 3 years ago
Thank you so much for this video! I've missed astronomy ever since I last took a course on it.
Rivensteel 3 years ago
The equipment you posesss is absolutely awesome. WTF do you do to afford all of this?
Sedalb 3 years ago
This has to be thuderfoot! Unless I am just an American wank who can't tell accents apart.
kurtu5 3 years ago 4
That's awesome, I was lucky enough to view the Shoemaker-Levy comet collision by chance one night whilst out shopping, a kindly Chemist had a scope setup outside the store. It was my first real telescope experience, I was blown away!
rgbda 3 years ago 2
very cool, had no idea you could see Jupiter's moons with telescope like that
andsoccer16 3 years ago
Actually, if you get away from the city lights, you can see the four "Gallilean" moons - the same ones you can see here - with a simple set of department store binoculars. You need a decent telescope if you want to see the color bands on the disc though.
jthurman 3 years ago
I can see its moons with a 8x binoculars
KosmynC64 3 years ago
ahh ive been watching it since about april
jupiter is my nickname in my neighborhood cuz i point out the planets to people when i see them
dancingnature 3 years ago
and i dont have a telescope and i live in NYC (light pollutionville)
so most of them are pretty obvious
dancingnature 3 years ago
This guy should do narration for movies. Imagine his voice for march of the penguins instead of morgan freeman!
ultimatedude1 3 years ago 3
"ultimatedude1"
"This guy should do narration for movies. Imagine his voice for march of the penguins instead of morgan freeman!"
Funny you should mention that. I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps TF could take over from David Attenborough and do documentaries.
What's wrong with Morgan Freeman's voice?
TMTGAU 3 years ago
Oh nothing is wrong with Morgan Freeman's voice. I was just saying what if TF did it instead :)
ultimatedude1 3 years ago
I love going holidays with TF, it's never boring.
TMTGAU 3 years ago
I'm ashamed to say I've had a new telescope for about 8 years and have only used it a couple of times. Thanks for the encouragement, and the video.
lockbot2101 3 years ago
unfortunatly im in the same boat...
its not a realy good one though.
Brettah31 3 years ago
awesome, I especially like seeing the moons.
malignantpoodle 3 years ago
amazing! I now require a telescope
0kDonkey 3 years ago
Fantastic!
jeremmorrow 3 years ago
I love the smell of fresh optics in the morning. Smells like victory.
Philosophobia 3 years ago 3
I have that scope!
GabrielGrewal 3 years ago
wow.... just wow is all i can say at the moment... moving on, i've been meaning to get a telescope for a while know, but with the rubbish weather and cloud cover we've had this summer its sorta put me off! seeing this makes me want a telescope more... the beauty and the majesty of our solar system, our galaxy and of course our universe in my mind doesnt have a word to describe it....... Fantastic!
adcproduction 3 years ago
so awesome. i want a super huge cool master telescope...as of now i have to be happy with my cheapy CSTAR refractor. jupiter was the first thing i found, it was so COOOL!
halfasshaley 3 years ago
holy shit i need a telescope - you got a beautiful picture.
I cannot even conceive what it be like if you find a suit that made it possible to be close to jupiter. fascinating
SpeciationEverywhere 3 years ago
I want that telescope!!
10secstomeltdown 3 years ago
hmm shoulda did the telescope walk through in the day time
nemesisnick66 3 years ago
I like hearing you get so excited about the smell of your telescope!
loveyoutodeathbut 3 years ago
so is that why the planets look like the are twinkling like stars when you look up at them
fromkellytowilliams 3 years ago
i would say damn,,,,2.5k for a telescope but then it dawned on me that i have a few expensive toys as well-to each their own.
thanks for the great series tf00t, been vicariously enjoying your trip out west.
mikemikemofo 3 years ago
Thunderf00t, what do you do for a living, if you don't mind me asking?
dcwest 3 years ago
professional youtube guru supported by god raining money on him;)
mikemikemofo 3 years ago
hes a college professor i think
dancingnature 3 years ago
Isn't God's creation amazing? Thanks for showing us how awesome God is, Thunderf00t.
skeptic26 3 years ago
lol haha
alunhughes 3 years ago
Well if there was an intelligent designer or a few then he/she/they are quite the artists and have wonderful tastes in beauty.
sXeXryanX 3 years ago
oh i agree
not all christians are ignorant and scientifically illiterate like most creationists btw
dancingnature 3 years ago
wow that was amazing, it blows my mind at how wonderful and amazing our universe is and this was just one plant in our small little solar system.
Thanks for the great video Thunderf00t.
koezpz 3 years ago
Another great one tf00t, about time we have some actual beauty in the "universe" as opposed the American West....
alltheworldsastage 3 years ago
AMAZING!
jebus6kryst 3 years ago
I just finished checking out jupiter in my 8" dob. It looked ok, the seeing was kind of poor.
choupick 3 years ago
It spins like a son of a bitch...
Thanks for the videos Thunderf00t
reloadedditto 3 years ago
Living in western washington is cool, but there are to many trees in my view of the sky. Guess you can't have everything.
HeathenWarriorPoet 3 years ago
i want a telescope, but the light pollution in Louisville is horrible.
NDNCABOOSE 3 years ago
i really wanna buy a telescope now
kosaiii 3 years ago
Thunderf00t, you have greatly increased my interest in atronomy and the other sciences. Thank you so much =D
ElDeclan 3 years ago
Awesome vid! What make/model telescope is that?
mchance27 3 years ago
You are the coolest scientist on YT. Thanks for all your vids and explanations. As you say, Beauty in the Universe. Hard to see the moon transit shadows but got the idea. 5*s of course.
saxmanchiro 3 years ago
wow! great stuff man! you know, people should have more channels like these.
(I saw the shadows!)
TheBiophiliacBright 3 years ago
Great video Thunder, it was really good quality you could see the shadow from the moons. Hopefully you will upload videos on other planets.
stoney202 3 years ago
awesome and very intelligent presentation awesome!!
boxa888 3 years ago
awesome
dilusional1 3 years ago
It's so close and yet so far away.
katey1dog 3 years ago
Beautiful!
Geodge 3 years ago
I love astronomy. Makes me wish I had a house away from all the lights so I could see the night sky well.
MagnusIan 3 years ago
Much agreed.
brinnmilo 3 years ago
That was awesome man, thanks a lot for that. I'm definitely getting a telescope now.
zbambam5 3 years ago
Coolies. Great shots.
davidproper 3 years ago
Thankyou :)
diffusiventity 3 years ago
That was quality!
RentTheSpokeMan 3 years ago
Beautiful! Too bad this year's opposition of Jupiter occurred at a really far-south declination. I'm stunned that you were actually able to resolve a transit with that camera to the eyepiece and all that atmospheric turbulence!
deconstrained 3 years ago
Awesome upload.
shawakwak 3 years ago
great video!
soulinite 3 years ago
Also, newer observatories have fancy lasers they project into the sky to reduce atmospheric distortion.
Also why they put big observatories on mountains.
ThetaOmega 3 years ago
Cool, you have a celestron. I have one, I think you have one of the facier nexstars, I have a cheaper one. All I need now is a damn clear evening!
ThetaOmega 3 years ago
your video's are amazing thetaOmega.
soulinite 3 years ago
I -dream- about having a telescope like that. One day I'll get one. I'm surprised you got your camera to work as well as it did without a mount.
quexalcoatl 3 years ago
That was incredibly cool! Thank you :)
I did once get the chance to see Saturn through a telescope and that was mind-blowing too.
Annickicki 3 years ago
me too
dancingnature 3 years ago
I didn't realise that the moons were so clear through a telescope. I went WOW when I saw it
Jameswynne1 3 years ago
Wow, I never thought you could record the details of Jupiter and its moon with a transportable telescope and a handheld digicam. My mouth dropped open when I saw this. But I have to say, I was already amazed when you took a video through binoculars. So maybe I should do more experiments with "fresh optics" myself.
superdau 3 years ago
dear TF nice vid, though the last bit with the moons wasn't quiet easy to see, but what i find amazing were the shots with the five moons in the beginning. Very nice Picture.
And ofcourse i now have a better grasp of how fast jupiter is actually spinning. 1/12h for about lets say a quater or a third of the ah.. scope?
for this big plannet an amazing circular velocity isn't it?
JoacinoDaGona 3 years ago
This is quite amazing.
JoanMichele 3 years ago
Awesome video Tf00t!.
So... telescope, 3 planes with wings and stuff, your stuff, weights (apparently)......how did you manage to fit everything in your car?
buzzausa 3 years ago
Maybe he owns a lorry as well
Jameswynne1 3 years ago
Cool. Makes me want to buy a telescope.
AcousticBlues1 3 years ago
Fantastic! The profundity continues.
swatson1978 3 years ago
its about time you used that thing lol
great video
IdoloR 3 years ago
Who DOESN'T love the smell of fresh optics?
akaast 3 years ago
let's take a minute to breathe it all in.
ahhh, optics.
lifeisgummo 3 years ago
Spectacular view, thunderf00t. I gotta get one of those.
LibertyIsNotGiven 3 years ago
Is your telescope motorized? At this magnification you should be able to see the earth rotation (Jupiter should constantly move out of the image in the eyepiece.
Secondly: If you don't like the shimmer then look at planets during a cold and cloudless winter night. Nights during winter might not be as good for astronomy when it comes to temperature, but the problems with the atmosphere get the smaller the colder the air is.
MichaFFrg 3 years ago
Nice work TF i was waiting for the telescope bit, you got some good shots of jupiter, it must have looked even better first hand (Jelous i only have a 6" dobs reflector)
Matty14388 3 years ago