Jupiter02 18-03-2007

[The1FlyingHigh]

That's awesome!

[ChrissyoSpace]

@The1FlyingHigh Thanks! :)

[hiian123]

wow te detail is phenominal!!!

[igenther99]

i wish they could have this type telescope for $20.00 instead of $2000.00

[thatsMrSmileytoyou]

Man I can't believe my brother took my telescope. I never learned how to use it though, but I was 14 and ignorant. Ah who cares I'll buy a better one

[trailkeeper]

If anyone is  interested, message me, I can send you the link for a free software program that can sample this movie, or series of photos, and output a clear still image with much less noise. I guess i t works by averaging the data.

[ChrissyoSpace]

Thanks, but I already use such a program, it's called Registax. There are a number of other free software packages that will do the same thing too.

[trailkeeper]

@ChrissyoSpace Do you know of any free programs to stabilize a video or a selected segment , I seen one vid where a "ufo" object was like hard to see and once it was stabilized it was a fairly clear video. I'm not sure if Registax can stabilze video.

[trailkeeper]

OK, thanks it was Registax. It's fairly easy to use, but I wish there was a good manual about tweaking it. You can also use the defaults and it works great usually.

[reshu151]

hi i am really newbies yday i seen jupiter with my mead lx90 10inch telescope all i can see is white ball and little two of his moon i want to know how can i see more in details and do i need to change my eyepiece i only have eyepiece supplied with telescope

[Astr0n0n0]

excellant!!

[PrzerabiaFilmy]

wow can you tell me what telescope you use for this video ?

[ChrissyoSpace]

My telescope is a 10" Newtonian.

[MsTormented]

hi just wanna ask how much a telescope would cost.thanks

[ChrissyoSpace]

The telescope I used in this video was about $800AU. The tracking mount I have it on was about $1500AU

[miguetiburon]

ESPECTACULAR... HERMOSO

[xato909]

WOOOW amazing Resolution!!!

great work =D

[taqyon]

Fantastic. Please pray tell - what video camera did you use??

[ChrissyoSpace]

Thanks.

For this video I was using an old Panasonic DV video camera.

[taqyon]

How did you mount it?

I'm using a web cam but can't get any detail as good as what you have on this vid.

[ChrissyoSpace]

I had build a rather crude wooden adapter for it - the camera sat in a sort of cradle with a clamp around the eyepiece that would hold the camera lens up to the eyepiece.

With my videos that I made with the video camera, I was able to make use of the camera's built in zoom. With a 26mm eyepiece and 2X barlow lens, the telescope would be operating at ~ 96X magnification. The camera also had up to 10X optical zoom, meaning I could push it to about 960X magnification. Hence the size here.

[taqyon]

Fantastic, awesome results. Have you tried to stack it?

[ChrissyoSpace]

Sure, that's been what I've been doing from the start. Some of my newer videos have stacked images added to the end, and there is a link to my deviantart page on my profile that has all my processed images.

[sk8erboi8484]

wow thats amazing... i wish i could afford a telescope that good. ha oh well

[guitarplayer4real]

Wow, excellent!

Have you done any stacking of the individual frames for a composite?

Do you play around with any CCD imagers? Just curious.. I bought a CCD Labs imager last year, its awesome!

Great vid, thanks!

[54spiritedwill54]

Great footage!

[mark1252003]

Still a good vid tho. i just got a C11 yay !!

[mark1252003]

Without the Digital zoom it would only be about 96x

[ChrissyoSpace]

Yup, that sounds about right. The digital zoom just gives it the image scale (with no added detail, of course).

[weldingwhiz77]

1000 magnification?not to question you,but are you sure?the most you can usually get out os a scope is 50 mag per inch.i own a 14 inch dob,and can only get 700 magnification out of it.what kind of telescope do you have,a refractor or a dob,shmitt?

[ChrissyoSpace]

Yeah, I'm sure. Though, it's not *actually* 1000 magnification because part of it was due to digital zoom on the video camera.

FL = 1250mm with 2X barlow = 2500mm

Eyepiece was about 26mm.

Plus ~10 to 15X digital zoom on video camera

I don't have a calculator with me right now (on a mall internet booth) so I cant do the calculation. It should be around 1000X or so though. (But, not *true* magnification).

[RJL738]

It's funny even though it is more than 11 times wider than the Earth, it takes less than 10 hours to rotate. Nice shot

[joshig1983]

You think the seeing is bad in the video? If that is bad, I'd like to see from where you do it because that seems like loads of detail compared to what I usually see.

[braddudeguy]

Looks like a jaw breaker!!!

[beredelamunte]

it's on my birtday=))

[sanshirovits]

here you cannot see the gasses moving like crazy. the famous eye

[luevanoalx]

that's awesome....watching somethign soooo far away..

[FionaTheFox]

That's awesome! The wobbliness is due to the Earth's atmosphere bending the light.

[836mvp50]

if that planet is that big on your telescope then that planet is so fucking huge!!!!!!

[ChrissyoSpace]

Jupiter is indeed huge. I used a fair bit of magnification for this video as well.

[OntZ]

so what scope is it exactly?

[ChrissyoSpace]

It is a 10" F5 Newtonian telescope.

[OntZ]

what power is this?

[ChrissyoSpace]

A bit over 1000X magnification.

[OntZ]

geeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzz

[sammylojax]

1000x???

how big is your scope?

[ChrissyoSpace]

It has a 10 inch primary mirror (about 25cm diameter) with a focal length of 1250 mm.

[ChrissyoSpace]

Oops sorry, I accidenty deleted your last comment (I pressed 'Remove' rather than 'Reply' accidently, they're right next to each other).

In response, I wish my telescope was 88000 miles large! That would produce some great images! :P

[Julianpe]

Very good!

[sandroac34]

Well... you need one a PEC...

[ChrissyoSpace]

Periodic Error Control? You mean I need my mount to be tracking better?  In these videos, I only use a fairly rough polar alignment, that's why I keep readjusting it with the hand controller.

[MothmanCometh]

Well that pretty much explains why I can't keep track of the damn thing: I have to adjust it manually.

[TheRealBlackHair]

Great footage!

[pharoah246]

thats crazy! awsome vid

[acasanova27]

Good work Chris looks very nice, lost of detail.

[sennetor]

I like this

[MGAVBRACE]

excellent sir very good

[leefbeef]

very cool. i have a question. wich planets can u see some day with only your eyes?

[ChrissyoSpace]

You can see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and sometimes (under very good stars) Uranus. From the naked eye with no telescope they just look like stars though.

[rubbbe]

holy poo poo do the moon next

[ChrissyoSpace]

I have a few videos of the moon in my profile.

[jamminit2]

That is superb

[LollipopSpider]

Very nice color-contrast balance. Are all your night skies there that unsteady?

[ChrissyoSpace]

Pretty much. I have a habit of using a bit too much magnification though :P That will increase the severity of the 'bubbling'.