Hi, would a field and stream pro telescope work for looking at planets with *slight* detail? It's a 60mm x 700mm. The lenses are H12.5MM, H20mm, and a SR4mm. I'm sure you will be able to see the circle of course but is it possible to tell the planet by view? Or would it be difficult? I'm new to this so i don't really know. Lol thanks and great vid.
@billyzovo9494 Hello I have such a scope as you do. With that telescope and a dark sky location away from city lights, you will on some very clear days be able to see some cloud belts on Jupiter. For sure, you should be able to see Jupiter's moons, up to 4 at one time. You will be able to see Saturn's rings, and the phases on Venus like the moon. Your magnifications are 35x with the 20mm: 700/20=35 , 56x with the 12.5mm 700/12.5=56 , and 175x for the 4mm but that will be fuzzy.
@billyzovo9494 To figure out the magnification take the focal lenght and divide that by the size of the eyepiece. Telescopes can only magnify so much before it gets too fuzzy. A good rule of thumb is 50x magnification for every inch of aperture. Aperture is the size or width of the glass or mirror on the telescope. So you have a 2.5" diameter telescope or 60mm so the best magnification you should be able to see clearly with is anywhere from 100x to 150x on the safe side.
Nice videos dude. It would be good to see maybe the final image of each planet at the end with the video used. I reckon mars would of turned out sweet :)
Lol! Nice. I laughed when read your comment. But nevertheless it is true. They downgraded our beloved Pluto to a moon. =\ He must feel so terrible about himself! =O
If pluto is not a planet, but is solid and revolves around our sun, how is it that Jupiter & Saturn, which are gas giants, and have no solid surface, are considered planets? I want to know who comes up with this shit. I think a planet should be something that you can land on and explore. But, that is only my opinion.
@ladychamberlainisit Planet comes from latin Planete - which means wanderer - so more specifically something that "wanders" around the sun. Not nessecarily landable and explorable! LOL
@ladychamberlainisit Pluto is now a "dwarf planet". "dwarf" means small. So yes, technically, it is still a planet. The guy who told you it has been "downgraded to a moon" five months ago was inaccurate. It is not a moon. A moon revolves around a planet. Pluto is still a planet but just a very small one. So small that they had to put it into a particular category; Dwarf Planets.
Imagine old astronomers looking up at these, they must've been as curious and oblivious towards them as we are with out space stuff today, they probably thought they had life on them. We live in exciting times.
ok i need help with jupiter i know theres the galiaen moons io, europa, calisto, and ganaymed ( soz for the spelling with some names) but i notice 2 moon far away from the planet. so my question is what are the moons and how many of jupiter moons are u able to see with the galilan moons. so far ive seen 6 moons including the 4 main moons.
@crownchanel....got the perfect one for you...just bought it a few days ago myself..its called the Galileoscope. Its $15.00 American Dollars. Not sure what it would be in Euros. For the price it can't be beat...and you can see all the planets but Pluto. It's a great "starter telescope"
incredible. where are you from mate? that view of saturn is brilliant. been looking tonight through my dad's telescope, very good but not as good as this! lucky man!
@10stokesy Hi, I am from Berlin (Germany) from where i took all this footage. It was a very claer night, when i filmed Saturn and the air was very calm, a seldom moment.
@KaterJames That's very great, i bet there's a lot of light from the street lanterns at night in Berlin but still good quality ! You can even clearly see the polar cap on Mars and the stripes on Jupiter
@goodchav star? ur an idiot...u mean sirius is the brightest star in the sky.....oh wtf lemme just inform u that jupiter is spelled with an e not an o, and it's a planet not a star..umm why r u here, there are plenty of three stooges vids on youtube that are on ur level
@FrankDoodle18 As i wrote in the description, i could not believe that, when i was very young. Only very well equipped people (astronomers) could make these pictures. Since the 80th i messed around with computers, later on with my own telescope, Then i read on a english homepage around the year 2000 about people which connected a webcam with a telescope and i tried that too.
@FrankDoodle18 To make pictures or a video like that, you should read a litlle bit about astronomy, have a nice telescope with a motor, which turnes the telescope at the same speed as the earth rotates, a little device for the method which is called "okularprojektion", wait until the planet which you want to observe is in your view, the weather must be clear and so on....
@FrankDoodle18 Jupiter is very easy to observe. You only need a binocular to see the 4 galilean moons. Saturn is more far away and much dimmer. But with a cheap telescope you will see, that this planet has a ring. For Mars you have to wait, until this planet is in opposition, which means, that he is on the nearest point to our planet. That occurs every 26th month. For more informations you should read some literatur about how to watch planets.
@FrankDoodle18 And of course, you can watch on YouTube a lot of other guys, which make videos like that. But there are not so many, who observed Mars in August 2003, when this planet was very near. This was a opposition, which occurs not very often.
@MeGaPixEliT i have no experience with this scope but i think, the mini-mount is too weak and without a motor it is nearly impossible to compensate exactly the rotation of our planet earth without heavy vibrations.
@LostLikeYou Off course you can. You can even see the four Galilean moons through a binocular. I've also heard that it is possible to see them with the naked eye, but I guess that you have to wait until Jupiter is in opposition for that. And you have to make sure that you are in a non-lightpolluted area (which is pretty difficult these times)
When I look I use a 4mm eyepiece and a 6 inch reflector telescope but it still looks like a blurry disk. Is this because I'm not getting enough light into the mirror?
U could have a small focal length reflector, i used my ancient 50mm refractor with 650mm focal length and a 6mm eyepeice and i get what you describe, try a barlow lense. if you have a dob usually 1200mm focal then somthing is going wrong. but done expect heaps of details as mars is small. and yea look at opposition
when i look through my telescope mars is pretty much the same size as seeing it with naked eye when i was expecting to see lots of detailed features, what gives?!? my telescopes focal length is 1250, i was using 26mm eyepiece and the x2 barlow lens.
If you want to see it bigger you are going to need a 12.5 mm lens or even smaller , a 9 mm , a 26 mm is just to find what your trying to see , then you change lens to see it bigger
simonfredette is correct. Drop down to lower mm eyepiece. Besides that Mars is just too far away and it's a small planet.... I've looked at it with 4 different scopes with various eyepieces and it's always a disappointment.
@ParaglidingManiac i think the reflector is better...it has a large light gathering power..so u can see things clearly...whereas the refracting telescope has got a problem of chromatic abbreviation..i've read that in a book..
Well, actually both reflectors and refractors have that "problem". It'ss more of an eypiece issue, whether you choose one that gives an upside down view or not.
no one is "better". both types have problems and advanteges. its more a matter of taste, which one you should take. for planets a long focal length is ok and the biggest aperture you can buy for your money.
focusing is not easy without a special tool. the tool i use is in germany called "scheinerblende". I use a piece of cupboard with to equal round holes with exactly the same size in it. This tool you put over the lense or at the front of your newton. You focus as normal and when you see two pictures of the planet you have to adjust your telescope until you see only one picture. this procedure takes only a minute, without the device much longer and a lot of unsharp videos.
I prefer reflectors and mak-cass type scopes. Less $, easy to carry. This guy's running a 1000mm refractor and that is one scope I'd be afraid to take out of the box for fear of breaking it! Holy cow, that's gotta be one expensive scope, and heavy too! (If you decide to get a refractor, don't buy one of those things you see in the local superstore, they're junk!). Good refractors like this are few and far between and cost serious money due to their optical sophistication.
"When I was a kid I thought, planets are fare away. Since I saw them through my small telescope, I know, that this is not true". Hmm, planets ARE very far away to us, but, compared to the whole of space, they ARE close.
planets are only a couple of minutes away from us and when you look through your telescope you are very astonished how fast our motherplanet spins around. thanks for your comment.
Great Video man..got lots of inspiration from ur work..thanks..
by the way I dont think my telescope is enough to look planets..i have tried several times to spot planets but always disappointed.I have a reflector telescope having Diameter of 100mm and Focal Length of 600mm and EyePiece is 25mm and 12mm .
Hry Kater James, this question seems popular, about the blue glow around Jupiter, i remeber when i asked you this question, i actually learned something about the reflection of earth in the telescope, .....Always nice to view your video buddy, at least once a week! Keep the good work comin!
Hi and thanks for your nice comment. The blue glow is, as i mentioned before, our own atmosphere, especially when the air is moisty. When i took the mars and saturn footage the weather was rather dry.
Hey i got a small telescope with 225x magnification for christmas and i havint tryed any other planet other then mars, the problem is the i just can focus in on mars, is that a problem with a small telescope? like is mars just tough to see or something? ill be trying saturn tommorow morning because on the box it sais that i would be able to see its rings.
@neilmcdonald72 never belive what you read on the telescope boxes they would say anything i use a Celestron NEXSTAR 114 SLT with Celestron NexImage CCD Color Imager and just about see saturns rings it is also about the eyepieces you use and the major part is about the viewing conditions
my advice toyou is to use the internet and see what is the best viewing for that nite there are lots of free programes to tell you what to look for on that nite
if youre from the uk i would suggest buying the celestron i think its the best amature scope on the market i got mine of good old ebay and with the imager for recording i got it all for around £500 and some of the images i have got is amazing i even snapped the ice caps on mars about 3 months ago wich takes pride on my mantle piece
anyway good look with youre scope and happy hunting
@neilmcdonald72 Mars is a very small planet (Smaller than Earth), thus making it very hard to see. It is easy to find during this month (I have found it every night that I go out). You usually cannot see much detail on Mars, occasionally just the poles. If you look very hard though, you should be able to see the moons Deimos and Phobos.
The telescope is designed to collect light, it does not magnify object itself. The magnification comes from the eyepiece you are using.
When viewing mars it is hard to see much detail, especially with smaller scope. Also, the atmospheric blurring also makes it harder to see detail. To get the best view you can of mars you should look at it when it is at it's highest point in the sky and on a night with good viewing conditions.
Another tip, is that you can put you telescope outside 30mins to and hour before you are going to view, this allows the telescope to reach the temperature of the air. If the scope if warm but the outside air is cold, this could also create some poor viewing conditions.
And remember, Mars is at opposition this January 29, so make sure you look for it then as well.
WHAT !!!! NO WAY MAN a 1000mm focal length telescope can do this? awsome i have a 700mm focal length telescope and i see somewhat detail in my back yard in Los angeles!
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LiveLikeJESUS4ever 4 weeks ago
which telescope did you use
tani2568 1 month ago
Hi, would a field and stream pro telescope work for looking at planets with *slight* detail? It's a 60mm x 700mm. The lenses are H12.5MM, H20mm, and a SR4mm. I'm sure you will be able to see the circle of course but is it possible to tell the planet by view? Or would it be difficult? I'm new to this so i don't really know. Lol thanks and great vid.
billyzovo9494 1 month ago
@billyzovo9494 did u ever get a response or do u have that telescope? i was thinking about buying the same one
ladiisweet 1 month ago
@billyzovo9494 Hello I have such a scope as you do. With that telescope and a dark sky location away from city lights, you will on some very clear days be able to see some cloud belts on Jupiter. For sure, you should be able to see Jupiter's moons, up to 4 at one time. You will be able to see Saturn's rings, and the phases on Venus like the moon. Your magnifications are 35x with the 20mm: 700/20=35 , 56x with the 12.5mm 700/12.5=56 , and 175x for the 4mm but that will be fuzzy.
LiveLikeJESUS4ever 4 weeks ago
@billyzovo9494 To figure out the magnification take the focal lenght and divide that by the size of the eyepiece. Telescopes can only magnify so much before it gets too fuzzy. A good rule of thumb is 50x magnification for every inch of aperture. Aperture is the size or width of the glass or mirror on the telescope. So you have a 2.5" diameter telescope or 60mm so the best magnification you should be able to see clearly with is anywhere from 100x to 150x on the safe side.
LiveLikeJESUS4ever 4 weeks ago
@billyzovo9494 If you have any other questions please let me know! I'm here to help!
LiveLikeJESUS4ever 4 weeks ago
@LiveLikeJESUS4ever Alright man thanks
billyzovo9494 3 weeks ago
Nice videos dude. It would be good to see maybe the final image of each planet at the end with the video used. I reckon mars would of turned out sweet :)
cosmicdonkz 3 months ago
how far can a 575x telescope go ????
TRUEgamer47 5 months ago
GREAT STUFF !! Have you viewed comet Elenin ?
MsGman09 6 months ago
Yo guys who said pluto was a moon?? Its a dwarf planet
EverydayAstronomy 6 months ago
Certainly tell It was Jupiter..... cool vid...
fjbutch 6 months ago
@ladychamberlainisit
Lol! Nice. I laughed when read your comment. But nevertheless it is true. They downgraded our beloved Pluto to a moon. =\ He must feel so terrible about himself! =O
ProfessorTortoise 6 months ago
If pluto is not a planet, but is solid and revolves around our sun, how is it that Jupiter & Saturn, which are gas giants, and have no solid surface, are considered planets? I want to know who comes up with this shit. I think a planet should be something that you can land on and explore. But, that is only my opinion.
ladychamberlainisit 6 months ago
@ladychamberlainisit Jupiter and Saturn have rock cores,does that compensate?
Infocollective22 5 months ago
@ladychamberlainisit Planet comes from latin Planete - which means wanderer - so more specifically something that "wanders" around the sun. Not nessecarily landable and explorable! LOL
LPalex2511 2 months ago
@LPalex2511 Sooooo, then Pluto is still definitely a planet then, by your definition.
ladychamberlainisit 2 months ago
@ladychamberlainisit Pluto is now a "dwarf planet". "dwarf" means small. So yes, technically, it is still a planet. The guy who told you it has been "downgraded to a moon" five months ago was inaccurate. It is not a moon. A moon revolves around a planet. Pluto is still a planet but just a very small one. So small that they had to put it into a particular category; Dwarf Planets.
Are you satisfied now? :)
dannysquirrel 1 month ago
Amazing!
Lili0000007 6 months ago
Spectacular
masajebueno 7 months ago
wow!! this is soooo beautiful!
DIGIMICH 8 months ago
Holy smokes...you telescope rocks...you can see the darker areas and the polar caps too!
Credithelper75 9 months ago
These videos look fake as fuck
montyladd 9 months ago
@montyladd haha
Glucoperon 9 months ago
A very beautiful view of Saturn. Mine isn't nearly as clear.
jorowi 9 months ago
why no sound?
shfbdfi1273 9 months ago
@shfbdfi1273 you are serious !! hahah, what the fuck do you expect to hear UFO"s or do you enjoy the sound of heav y breathing and wind
montyladd 9 months ago
Wow, that is amazing!
kagesmagergodt1000 10 months ago
Incredibly beautiful! Thank you for sharing this video!
dtkachuk 10 months ago
Imagine old astronomers looking up at these, they must've been as curious and oblivious towards them as we are with out space stuff today, they probably thought they had life on them. We live in exciting times.
knigthfigth 10 months ago
how do u knw whn ther r going to b out so u can see thm?
chencha1111 10 months ago
this is amazing... i need to get an expensive telescope and go some where, no lights around and see these planets.
TreyOConner 11 months ago
i found saturn and it's ring amazing!
veedeeproductions 11 months ago
dude how did u record?
tkrisnadas 11 months ago
nice dude
guts777bzrk1 11 months ago
yeh our neighbor has one and i saw jupiter i wanna see saturn bad but bad time of the year as it is very cloudy at night..
biancaphil08 1 year ago
wow what telescope is that try to scope out for neptune next please im gonna subscribe
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gulfland 1 year ago
thats really cool i wish i had a telescope like that
MultiAwesomenessman 1 year ago
ok i need help with jupiter i know theres the galiaen moons io, europa, calisto, and ganaymed ( soz for the spelling with some names) but i notice 2 moon far away from the planet. so my question is what are the moons and how many of jupiter moons are u able to see with the galilan moons. so far ive seen 6 moons including the 4 main moons.
thegeckoproduction 1 year ago
Incredible that we can see these from Earth, but you wouldn't be able to see Earth from then.
Doctor699 1 year ago
Nice job!
TheSampo112 1 year ago
Mars is so beautiful to look at, probaly one of the more intresting planets to look at becuase of how its seasons change
B0rnToRoll 1 year ago
Brilliant!
SimulationGuy121 1 year ago
How big was the aperture of this scope?
srcevatreno16 1 year ago
beautiful to see
stuartkwgreen 1 year ago
can you piz tell me the date of when you saw this
102Bieberfever 1 year ago
All great images, with Mars particularly good because it's not easy to get any surface detail.
herbal1971 1 year ago
i wish i can live there seems peacefull
drabeblaine 1 year ago
@drabeblaine It's not.
LesPaul2006 1 year ago
THATS **** AMAZING I SAW SATURN FROM MY TELESCOPE AND IT WAS NOT AS BETTER THAN YOURS
nijel45 1 year ago
@crownchanel....got the perfect one for you...just bought it a few days ago myself..its called the Galileoscope. Its $15.00 American Dollars. Not sure what it would be in Euros. For the price it can't be beat...and you can see all the planets but Pluto. It's a great "starter telescope"
Credithelper75 1 year ago
are there any chaep telescopes i can buy to see jupiter saturn mars venus etc ?
(in euros )
?
I do live in a place with not that many lights so it wont be hard to see them.
CrownChanel 1 year ago
very nice
yuriogy1 1 year ago
thats amazing! what kind of telescope did you use to see the planets?
c00lch1ck37 1 year ago
really awsome I want a telescope.What kind do you have?
kkiller81 1 year ago
WOw you can really see the moons of jupiter even though they're so small..
I always see 3 straight dots when I look at jupiter...
echizenn808 1 year ago 2
Extraordinary!
jonathonvideos 1 year ago
How large is your scope?
Chunkybuddha1 1 year ago
i want to have that toooo
sayocean09 1 year ago
lol nubs u use telescope and i binoculars :3
xxVojticN09xx 1 year ago
Saturn is cool!
sailboard511 1 year ago
the telescope i have, i had to pay around 2500 to 3000 i got it from the planatarium look at my videos too see!
BrooklynsFinest177 1 year ago
I want a telescope
kutulik77 1 year ago
Very, very cool. Das ist fantastish. :)
495530357588 1 year ago
Very crisp view of Saturn.
oso702 1 year ago
incredible. where are you from mate? that view of saturn is brilliant. been looking tonight through my dad's telescope, very good but not as good as this! lucky man!
10stokesy 1 year ago 12
@10stokesy Hi, I am from Berlin (Germany) from where i took all this footage. It was a very claer night, when i filmed Saturn and the air was very calm, a seldom moment.
KaterJames 1 year ago 6
@KaterJames That's very great, i bet there's a lot of light from the street lanterns at night in Berlin but still good quality ! You can even clearly see the polar cap on Mars and the stripes on Jupiter
Robino1991 1 year ago
@KaterJames By the way you can even see 'Europe' (moon of Jupiter) if you follow its stripes and look up and left
Robino1991 1 year ago
@10stokesy Moi aussi jai vue avec mon telescope AstroMaster 76AQ je peux voire Saturn,Mars,Jupiter,Venus et La Lune
cel207 1 year ago
how much are those telescopes
xzachx24 1 year ago
@xzachx24 500-1000€
KaterJames 1 year ago
@KaterJames
krass , ich will mir auch ein guten teleskop holen und mit meine eigenen augen die planeten zu sehen. LIVE!
dein Video top 5 sterne.
frage: wie war das erstemal als du die planeten gesehen hast, wie hast du dich gefühlt?
BeratLavdrim 1 year ago
@xzachx24 I got mine out here in the US for about a $1000, (about 6 years ago)
oso702 1 year ago
Nice! i envy you,i wish i hada a telescope T_T
they are way too expensive aren't they?
KiteNamikaze 1 year ago
@KiteNamikaze I bought MY telescope for 5 bucks!
Havent made a attemp to use it though...
FlashSketch 1 year ago
@FlashSketch
...5 bucks?
it must see A PIXEL more than the naked eye.
KiteNamikaze 1 year ago
@KiteNamikaze No. you dont understand
It was donated at GoodWill -_-
So, the company didint make that price. Goodwill did XD
FlashSketch 1 year ago
what magnification is your telescope?
linkinparky1 1 year ago
@linkinparky1 this depends on the optical system, especially the used eyepiece. in this vid around 130 - 150
KaterJames 1 year ago
how did you know when and where to look to see the two gas giants?
1andrewman1 1 year ago
@1andrewman1 you can use a program like "Stellarium"
KaterJames 1 year ago 8
@KaterJames
Stellarium is an outstanding program--and it's free, too!
mikul99 1 year ago
@KaterJames i have it thats how i found saturn right over the moon!
Webkinzgirl624 9 months ago
you carnt miss juptior its the largest and brightest star in the sky
goodchav 11 months ago
@goodchav star? ur an idiot...u mean sirius is the brightest star in the sky.....oh wtf lemme just inform u that jupiter is spelled with an e not an o, and it's a planet not a star..umm why r u here, there are plenty of three stooges vids on youtube that are on ur level
blocpartyband07 9 months ago
@1andrewman1 you carnt miss juptior its the largest and brightest star in the sky
goodchav 11 months ago
how much would it cost for a telescope that can see saturn?
whatnamesnottakenyet 1 year ago
wow Saturn is beautiful !
sparkle960 1 year ago
nice views of mars! I can see that northern polar ice cap perfectly!
hiian123 1 year ago
wow, saturn looks amazing
MiChiamoEpic 1 year ago
how did you film through your telescope? just wonderd and ncie video
macturbo789 1 year ago
@macturbo789 The method is explained in my video How To Make A Nice Marsvideo For YouTube
KaterJames 1 year ago
@KaterJames oo ok thanks :)
macturbo789 1 year ago
why do i find this hard to believe?im not hatin or anything
FrankDoodle18 1 year ago
@FrankDoodle18 As i wrote in the description, i could not believe that, when i was very young. Only very well equipped people (astronomers) could make these pictures. Since the 80th i messed around with computers, later on with my own telescope, Then i read on a english homepage around the year 2000 about people which connected a webcam with a telescope and i tried that too.
KaterJames 1 year ago
@FrankDoodle18 To make pictures or a video like that, you should read a litlle bit about astronomy, have a nice telescope with a motor, which turnes the telescope at the same speed as the earth rotates, a little device for the method which is called "okularprojektion", wait until the planet which you want to observe is in your view, the weather must be clear and so on....
KaterJames 1 year ago
@FrankDoodle18 Jupiter is very easy to observe. You only need a binocular to see the 4 galilean moons. Saturn is more far away and much dimmer. But with a cheap telescope you will see, that this planet has a ring. For Mars you have to wait, until this planet is in opposition, which means, that he is on the nearest point to our planet. That occurs every 26th month. For more informations you should read some literatur about how to watch planets.
KaterJames 1 year ago
@FrankDoodle18 And of course, you can watch on YouTube a lot of other guys, which make videos like that. But there are not so many, who observed Mars in August 2003, when this planet was very near. This was a opposition, which occurs not very often.
KaterJames 1 year ago
nce video dude
hummerume 1 year ago
whats it like wen u look at the moon?
420MilKY 1 year ago
hey nice video u have a good telescope
jameshaleylfc 1 year ago
@jameshaleylfc thanks for this nice comment
KaterJames 1 year ago
is the image sharper when u look through it?
Antardrews 1 year ago
@Antardrews the image is much smaller when i look through the telescope with my eyes
KaterJames 1 year ago
@MeGaPixEliT i have no experience with this scope but i think, the mini-mount is too weak and without a motor it is nearly impossible to compensate exactly the rotation of our planet earth without heavy vibrations.
KaterJames 1 year ago
Scratch mah last comment i went onto ur profile saw u wher german haha :P
dudewalkers 1 year ago
Nice saturn looks sickkkkkkk and was this in ireland u filmed this~?
dudewalkers 1 year ago
WoW....... i like, dude can you tell me more about your telescope, and if it for sale in America Central?
XmodGT1 1 year ago
i have a skywatcher 90 mm and i can bearly see good like on this video... witch kind of telescope is it?
MrCanard31 1 year ago
mine cost 40 bucks and its better than this
kaiyacoolatlive 1 year ago
cool, you can even see jupiters moons.
LostLikeYou 1 year ago
@LostLikeYou Off course you can. You can even see the four Galilean moons through a binocular. I've also heard that it is possible to see them with the naked eye, but I guess that you have to wait until Jupiter is in opposition for that. And you have to make sure that you are in a non-lightpolluted area (which is pretty difficult these times)
krisDM3000 1 year ago
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How much is 500€ equal to dollars?
supercoolmunkee 1 year ago
Dude about how much did your telescope cost?
rockbabe95 1 year ago
about 500€
KaterJames 1 year ago
When I look I use a 4mm eyepiece and a 6 inch reflector telescope but it still looks like a blurry disk. Is this because I'm not getting enough light into the mirror?
Squipplekillzbitches 1 year ago
U could have a small focal length reflector, i used my ancient 50mm refractor with 650mm focal length and a 6mm eyepeice and i get what you describe, try a barlow lense. if you have a dob usually 1200mm focal then somthing is going wrong. but done expect heaps of details as mars is small. and yea look at opposition
skylinevspec000 1 year ago
Could it possibly just be the area that I'm in? It's got a decent amount of glare but even then I thought I'd see more.
Squipplekillzbitches 1 year ago
when i look through my telescope mars is pretty much the same size as seeing it with naked eye when i was expecting to see lots of detailed features, what gives?!? my telescopes focal length is 1250, i was using 26mm eyepiece and the x2 barlow lens.
snorkmaiden24 1 year ago
try a 10 or 15mm eyepiece and wait until mars is again in opposition.
KaterJames 1 year ago
If you want to see it bigger you are going to need a 12.5 mm lens or even smaller , a 9 mm , a 26 mm is just to find what your trying to see , then you change lens to see it bigger
simonfredette99 1 year ago
@snorkmaiden24
With my 6" reflector, I had to use a 9mm, 6mm or even 5mm eyepiece to really expand Mars to a noticeable disk. I recommend you do the same.
Obama4Prezz 1 year ago
@snorkmaiden
simonfredette is correct. Drop down to lower mm eyepiece. Besides that Mars is just too far away and it's a small planet.... I've looked at it with 4 different scopes with various eyepieces and it's always a disappointment.
perltech 1 year ago
Which is better? Reflector or Refractor telescope? For planetary observing. I have a Reflector (114/900).
ParaglidingManiac 1 year ago
@ParaglidingManiac i think the reflector is better...it has a large light gathering power..so u can see things clearly...whereas the refracting telescope has got a problem of chromatic abbreviation..i've read that in a book..
Naweed1000 1 year ago
Well, actually both reflectors and refractors have that "problem". It'ss more of an eypiece issue, whether you choose one that gives an upside down view or not.
ParaglidingManiac 1 year ago
no one is "better". both types have problems and advanteges. its more a matter of taste, which one you should take. for planets a long focal length is ok and the biggest aperture you can buy for your money.
KaterJames 1 year ago
how do you focus it to see it or how long did it took you to focus it
nataliaisuglyandfea 1 year ago
focusing is not easy without a special tool. the tool i use is in germany called "scheinerblende". I use a piece of cupboard with to equal round holes with exactly the same size in it. This tool you put over the lense or at the front of your newton. You focus as normal and when you see two pictures of the planet you have to adjust your telescope until you see only one picture. this procedure takes only a minute, without the device much longer and a lot of unsharp videos.
KaterJames 1 year ago
Thats how it looks through my telescope. Which one do you use? Saturn always looks so unreal.....Kinda strange. Like artificial.
xMelvinSmileyx 1 year ago
Mars was awesome !
mamadoumangerbanane 1 year ago
there is only one planet that we cannot observe whole on earth with any kind of telescope. What is it?
KJSwish 2 years ago
Hi, this is a nice question. I know the answer. Who else?
KaterJames 2 years ago
then tell us what is the answer?????????????
yurudiego 1 year ago
@yurudiego
I prefer reflectors and mak-cass type scopes. Less $, easy to carry. This guy's running a 1000mm refractor and that is one scope I'd be afraid to take out of the box for fear of breaking it! Holy cow, that's gotta be one expensive scope, and heavy too! (If you decide to get a refractor, don't buy one of those things you see in the local superstore, they're junk!). Good refractors like this are few and far between and cost serious money due to their optical sophistication.
perltech 1 year ago
Earth?
ikedasquid 2 years ago 2
i think that this is the answer. if you install a telescope on our moon or on mars for example, you could observe our motherplanet of course.
KaterJames 2 years ago
@ikedasquid correct
KJSwish 2 years ago
this is awesome what magnification telescope are you using
thanks
winston0024 2 years ago
about 130-150
KaterJames 2 years ago
woah, saturn was astonishing! I wasn't actually expecting to see its rings that well.
MoMoMel908 2 years ago 2
"When I was a kid I thought, planets are fare away. Since I saw them through my small telescope, I know, that this is not true". Hmm, planets ARE very far away to us, but, compared to the whole of space, they ARE close.
phoenixenterprise 2 years ago
planets are only a couple of minutes away from us and when you look through your telescope you are very astonished how fast our motherplanet spins around. thanks for your comment.
KaterJames 2 years ago
Great Video man..got lots of inspiration from ur work..thanks..
by the way I dont think my telescope is enough to look planets..i have tried several times to spot planets but always disappointed.I have a reflector telescope having Diameter of 100mm and Focal Length of 600mm and EyePiece is 25mm and 12mm .
Can I look for Planets from this telescope?
Pls Guide..
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Thanks
Vinay
vatsshah 2 years ago
Your telescope is nice to look at planet Jupiter and the galilean moons.
KaterJames 2 years ago
what time was it when you filmed them
MjrDario 2 years ago
I filmed Mars after midnight, Saturn short before - as far as i can remember - and Jupiter I have forgotten
KaterJames 2 years ago
@KaterJames thanks but im talking about southern europe
MjrDario 2 years ago
Do you REALLY have to put a filter to view Mars....
propaghandi2 2 years ago
The IR-light has a different focal point compared to the visible spectrum. The IR-blocking filter should fix this problem.
KaterJames 2 years ago
Hry Kater James, this question seems popular, about the blue glow around Jupiter, i remeber when i asked you this question, i actually learned something about the reflection of earth in the telescope, .....Always nice to view your video buddy, at least once a week! Keep the good work comin!
Take care!
propaghandi2 2 years ago
Hi and thanks for your nice comment. The blue glow is, as i mentioned before, our own atmosphere, especially when the air is moisty. When i took the mars and saturn footage the weather was rather dry.
KaterJames 2 years ago
Blue glow around Jupiter???
g00dguyz 2 years ago
That is the atmosphere from our motherplanet
KaterJames 2 years ago
Oh...
g00dguyz 2 years ago
Did you used filter for mars ?? What filters ?
oscarlithgow 2 years ago
in this vid i used only a IR-blocking filter
KaterJames 2 years ago
Mars was superb, pretty contrasty. Jupiter and saturn were ok, i have beter views of them in my XT10 but not mars, your's is much beter.
oscarlithgow 2 years ago
wow neat pics for 4 inch aperture
markuslebt 2 years ago
Hey i got a small telescope with 225x magnification for christmas and i havint tryed any other planet other then mars, the problem is the i just can focus in on mars, is that a problem with a small telescope? like is mars just tough to see or something? ill be trying saturn tommorow morning because on the box it sais that i would be able to see its rings.
Thanks,
Neil.
neilmcdonald72 2 years ago
@neilmcdonald72 never belive what you read on the telescope boxes they would say anything i use a Celestron NEXSTAR 114 SLT with Celestron NexImage CCD Color Imager and just about see saturns rings it is also about the eyepieces you use and the major part is about the viewing conditions
my advice toyou is to use the internet and see what is the best viewing for that nite there are lots of free programes to tell you what to look for on that nite
openyouremind 2 years ago
Ok thanks that helped alot.
neilmcdonald72 2 years ago
@neilmcdonald72 youre welcome
if youre from the uk i would suggest buying the celestron i think its the best amature scope on the market i got mine of good old ebay and with the imager for recording i got it all for around £500 and some of the images i have got is amazing i even snapped the ice caps on mars about 3 months ago wich takes pride on my mantle piece
anyway good look with youre scope and happy hunting
openyouremind 2 years ago
@neilmcdonald72 Mars is a very small planet (Smaller than Earth), thus making it very hard to see. It is easy to find during this month (I have found it every night that I go out). You usually cannot see much detail on Mars, occasionally just the poles. If you look very hard though, you should be able to see the moons Deimos and Phobos.
Goalatio 2 years ago
The telescope is designed to collect light, it does not magnify object itself. The magnification comes from the eyepiece you are using.
When viewing mars it is hard to see much detail, especially with smaller scope. Also, the atmospheric blurring also makes it harder to see detail. To get the best view you can of mars you should look at it when it is at it's highest point in the sky and on a night with good viewing conditions.
jzone2006 2 years ago
ok good tips thank you
neilmcdonald72 2 years ago
Another tip, is that you can put you telescope outside 30mins to and hour before you are going to view, this allows the telescope to reach the temperature of the air. If the scope if warm but the outside air is cold, this could also create some poor viewing conditions.
And remember, Mars is at opposition this January 29, so make sure you look for it then as well.
jzone2006 2 years ago
that will diffinitly help seeing how its a canadian winter where i live. thanks.
neilmcdonald72 2 years ago
No problem, I too am from Canada, and it does get cold :P. Not a lot of snow this year though.
jzone2006 2 years ago
Really nice. Are you processing videos in Registax or so? Especially with Mars on the beginning you should get interesting results...
mirhaba 2 years ago
yes i do. in my video "Journey Through Our Solar System With Small Telescopes, Digital Cameras And A Webcam" are some examples.
KaterJames 2 years ago
very nice!
mistycusa1 2 years ago
WHAT !!!! NO WAY MAN a 1000mm focal length telescope can do this? awsome i have a 700mm focal length telescope and i see somewhat detail in my back yard in Los angeles!
vwlover94 2 years ago
as i mentioned before, i used a technik called okularprojektion, which is simple a optical system . more details you will find at google.
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PhilipK100 2 years ago
i can't view planets on my telescope at all.
these are nice images.
crucialconflict02 2 years ago
mars is very nice, it nearly as large as jupiter! but I think your webcam type is CMOS, you can use a CCD instead.
caozhongyan 2 years ago