Jupiter

[danandhat]

Nice ! i notice you said that you placed the webcam up against the eyepiece ,

have you thought about unscrewing the lens from the webcam and getting a webcam to 1/14 inch adapter and replacing your eyepiece with the webcam it self , you can still shoot through the barlow and without the webcam lens on you get about 10 times more magnification , i hope im not teaching you to suck eggs its just what i have learned in the adventurous world of astro-photography also download registax for free

[achimreinhardt]

Schoenes Video! ;-))

Achim

[AmpleLight]

I got pretty close to this with a meade etx70

[CosmoGalaxina]

veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenga ya.

[messageofthemaker]

I have always wanted a telescope that can get that much magnification. Well, maybe someday.

[AmpleLight]

@messageofthemaker The secret to astronomical magnification is a high quality low lux digital video camcorder with atleast 20x optical zoom. Mount one to any telescope or monocular eyepiece and be stunned by real time extreme zoom videoscoping.

I highly recommend at least meade etx90 for your first scope, 70 is what i have.

[messageofthemaker]

@AmpleLight Ah! Fascinating!

[juniortore]

is it motorized?

[taqyon]

@juniortore No, I centered the frames with software.

[YellowBricks1234]

If Jupiter has so much gas around it, it could just be a small planet. Jupiter is so hard to comprehend fully.

[alexm1guitar]

@YellowBricks1234 Jupiter is very interesting. The dark bands are actually gaps in the higher light colored clouds. Jupiter is said to have a rocky, icy core about the size of the earth.

[hiian123]

great job! Im planning on buying an 8 inch meade lightbridge dobsonian truss telescope as my first one for 400 bucks! I am also looking at sets with filters and lenses . I saw a meade set for 200 bucks that is high quality. Its the meade series 4000 with 6 lenses a 2x barlow 4 color filters and a moon filter in a hard alluminum case. I have a question, what exactly do u do with barlow lenses. do u just add them to the lens allready on to magnify? Thx and great video!

[taqyon]

Thanks, I didn't use a lens, just the webcam mounted on the eye piece holder.

[AmpleLight]

@hiian123 Barlow lens's work by optical stacking. A standard eyepiece fits into the barrel socket of the barlow, like it would normally into a telescope. The barlow goes first into the telescope, then an eyepiece into the barlow socket.

[AmpleLight]

@hiian123 depending on which brand you choose, they can magnify the objective capability of your telescope two, three, four, or five times, they will also reduce the amount of visible light exiting the eyepiece, thus resulting in fainter images.

[mahmoodakbarshamshir]

The other night i used the same telescope skywatcher 8 inch dob (F1200MM D200mm) with 2X Barlow and 10mm eye piece, but Jupiter looked smaller than your video, what is the reason?, timing?, location ? , i would appreciate if some1 can explain that to me

[taqyon]

My image was taken using a NexImage webcam, in the place of the eye piece, so it's not the same as watching it through a 10mm eye piece. Once it's on the computer you can't really compare size anymore, since pixels can not be translated to millimeters in the eye piece. Hope it helps?

[mahmoodakbarshamshir]

Thank you.

[AmpleLight]

@mahmoodakbarshamshir Its becuase digital cameras have optical zoom capability which actually magnifiy the eyepiece far beyond the human eyeball's focusing ability. Any digital camera will work on a telescope, but to bring the image closer it must have a minimum of 10x optical zoom.

[Lity10]

shit music

[namfamily2202]

I see it spinnning, wow... spins fast,

[jamieball]

Jupiter spins on its axis once every 9 hours..

9 hours = 1 day

[RJL738]

Thanks for showing, Jupiter is almost 1,450 times the Earth's volume and is more than 5 times further from the Sun than the Earth.

[RUCOTI]

Can you tell me what combination of eyepieces you used to get this awesome image of jupiter.

im using the ploss 26mm with 2X barlow and i still cant see what you're seing, well maybe im looking at stars not planets.

[taqyon]

No eyepieces, just the camera in place of the eye piece. A 26mm 2x Barlow will get you a great view of jupiter on scopes with a focal length of more than 700mm. No spectacular planets out at the moment - wait until February and August for the best show!

[Pingletons]

Naw, just stay out till 2 am and saturn will be decently high in the sky. In the evenings, Uranus is even higher than Venus. It's near impossible to see though.

[franchu1]

Just ordered a 8" Meade Dob, this video is very inspiring,

[RUCOTI]

Vey cool, I just got the 8" skywatcher with the collapsable trusses. How did you get jupiter to stay still without paning the telescope?

[taqyon]

Thanks.

I did pan manually - just used some astro post-processing software to center it in the frames.

[taylortownmayor]

Great video!

What software did you use?

[taqyon]

Thanks, Amcap I think. I then used PCFE to center the frames.

[Edgerush3]

Very Very Cool!