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Uploaded by on Apr 12, 2007

Saturn going past the field of view of my stationary telescope. It's a Newtonian 4.5 inch. Video captured with a ToUcam Philips webcam through a x3 magnification Barlow lens.

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  • What was the TouCam equivalent to (eyepiece). I have a Celestron Astromaster 114AZ. I saw ur most recent vid as well, great views!

  • I never know how to answer that. Basically, the image scale (in arc-minutes per millimetre, say) is a direct function of the focal length. Our eyes use a focal length of 17mm and this telescope has a focal length of 900mm, with a 2.5x Barlow that's 1800+450=2250 mm. That's 132 time greater.

  • This is a really good video

    I am doing this with a webcam too

    How did you manage to focus the planet through the Barlow Lens using the webcam?

    What make is your telescope

    The Barlow you used was good enough to help clarify and magnify the planet

  • Thanks! I focused by watching the preview screen on the laptop. More recently, I used moon craters to focus on and then moved back to Saturn. I now have a little motor drive that keeps me more or less pointed to Saturn, so focusing is a bit easier. It's a Celestron PowerSeeker 114EQ, FL=900mm. I used the 3x Barlow that came with the scope, a plastic bodied flimsy looking thing. This year I used a TeleVue 2.5x Barlow and I modded the webcam to RAW frames, giving a much better result.

  • No, no colour filter, just the cheap and nasty plastic Barlow 3x lens that was included with the scope.

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  • moves fast!

  • i dont have a barlow lense but am hearing mixed opinions about them, is it worth it?

  • Is that 114/900?

  • i want to buy it...

  • Nice job fiming this. Saturn is more than 800 times the volume of the Earth. Saturn is also more than 9.5 AU from the Sun and has at least 61 known moons.

  • Ive got a Orion SkyQuest 4.5" Dobsonian telescope, will I get the same view? What eyepiece did you use?

  • PS: see what results you get with jupiter

    its out high near dawn...

    im dying to do that myself but unfortunately i have a DESKtop so i am going to have 2 wait until long after opposition or until i get my digital slr camera next month

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