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Uploaded by on Sep 2, 2008

A brief description of looking at Jupiter through an 11in schmidt cassegrain reflector. However the scope was in this case clearly limited by the atmosphere (basically a telescope about half the size would have given about the same performance.

Its actually an 11in CPC celestron which come in at about 2.5k bux. It comes with lots of bells n whistles and is impressively quick and easy to set up.


Jupiter is typically the fourth brightest object in the sky and is currently (end of summer 08) seen in the South at sunset.

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  • Everytime I look at Jupiter it gives me creepy vibes with a dash of beauty. I always imagine floating around the large planets in the voids of space, lol. They're the interesting ones! Earth is so boring, but we need it so I shouldn't bitch. I just wish we didn't need oxygen and could float around the entire Universe at ease....

  • "Holy shit, the Jupiter is spinning really fast "

    The day length is 10 hours, which considering the size of it is incredible.

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  • "ahhh the smell of fresh optics" lol

  • great stuff man

  • i just saw Jupiter, pretty light planet for me.

  • Anybody look at Jupiter lately? .... Its southern belt has dissappeared.

  • im guessing those 4 "star" looking things next to jupiter when u zoom in are one of the 60 some moons of jupiter..

  • Thundry jupiter

  • I have a much weaker telescope, but it's strong enough to get a glimpse of 4 moons around it, but not strong enough to where you can see the cloud bands of Jupiter.

  • @Jas0nphilly Just imagine at higher mags! :O Thats what I like about the planets and moon! that we can see them even through light pollution but if u go in an unpolluted, real dark place! It will look even better!

  • @Jas0nphilly I have a 5.1 inch reflector too! And yea You can see it at that mag! But I say try higher mag! A 5.1 inch scope can go as high as 250x mag!(Mine goes up to 307x! :D but I doubt I'll get to that mag unless My sky is really clear and dark! And unpolluted! too much light! I did that one time and what a difference from a light polluted area! And at 120x! thats the mag I look at jupiter at! thru the 5.1 inch it looks amazing! So does saturn! and right now mars! I just saw it awhile ago!

  • Hi very nice video, can you tell me what kind of eyepiece you used and also the type of camera . Thanks

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