Members' observations, Things we see through our humble 'scopes... |
Members' observations, Things we see through our humble 'scopes... |
Mar 4 2009, 11:46 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Gorgeous clear night in Kendal tonight, the Moon looked spectacular in my 4.5" scope. Took some pix, didn't turn out too bad...
Saturn looked really nice too, with at least 3 of the "other" moons visible. -------------------- |
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Dec 15 2009, 01:57 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 25-April 08 From: near New York City, NY Member No.: 4103 |
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Dec 15 2009, 09:08 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
For a sufficiently large FOV you can fit even more in
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Dec 16 2009, 02:11 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 25-April 08 From: near New York City, NY Member No.: 4103 |
For a sufficiently large FOV you can fit even more in Now I have a minute to add some details to my previous post. The picture is a simulation of a 5 degree field from the Solar System Simulator. My camera isn't sensitive enough to get deep enough to get Neptune! We did get a quick look at Neptune early Saturday night in a couple of scopes. It wasn't hard to see, but at that time even the surrounding the stars looked a bit planetary, so it was not obvious that it was different than the surrounding stars. I could convince myself it was blueish, but it may have been light blue or we may have been just expecting it to be a different color than the surrounding stars, since I hear it's hard to see color in telescope observations of Neptune. I hope other people will try to spy Neptune as Galileo did 400 years ago! bob |
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