The Planet Jupiter, the GRS and Io through a telescope
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What mag did you get? Looks high :)
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A little skill upon a good telescope, used hour after hour, day after day, allows to recognize and follow the four Jupiter's Moons, as they show slightly different appearances (even if they are small bright dots). However, one can get a sure confirmation running the Planetary JPL on-line Simulator or some freeware like Celestia or Stellarium, after having set current observer's location, correct time, date and size of view.
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how can you tell which moon it is?
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It's a common ortho 9 mm; the webcam's chip was about 55 mm far from the eye end of the eyepiece . Equivalent focal lenght could be obtained after some measures on this video. Perhaps it's about 4000-4500 mm.
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What kind of eye piece did you use,I mean the magnification and focal length?
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you can sometimes see its moon in the video.
What is the telescope you have? You have very good footage for a 7'' so you must have a good mount yes?
I have ordered a Meade 12'' dobsonian lightbridge and I've been looking at these videos because even though your's is a 7'' I'm thinking that he views I will get will be quite similar. Except of course that mine won't track.
m0osey 2 years ago
Thank you for your comment and for viewing my best Jupiter avi file. I've just answered in my "worst" Mars upload.
balzerbarn 2 years ago
How do you get that image on your telescope? I have an 8-inch dobsonian and for some reason I can't get that image:[
atbsfia 2 years ago
I had very stable seeing for half an hour or more. No wind, no traffic jam, none cooking somewhere. The equatorial mount worked fine (at least, the best sector of the gear). In those conditions, I could get a reasonably good focus (not perfect, to be honest...).
balzerbarn 2 years ago