The Official Astronomy Thread

[marine1]

Now if I can only take osme photos, need to get this thing mastered.

 

[waynegohl]

hey man practice makes perfect so get going.

 

[marine1]

 

[Ou grote]

Well, then feel free to Google away.

For those of you to lazy to Google or who want to get a general idea of what you would be able to see.

Close to what you'll see through the telescope with your own eyes:
Saturn
Jupiter
Mars
Jupiter and Moons (6" scope)

Processed and stacked images:
Saturn
Jupiter

So that should give you guys an idea of what to expect. Even if they aren't my own images.

Sheezus! That's awesome, can see why u guys spend all that money.

 

[UnoPanelvan]

How does a star really look? I've tried googling for photo's, but I don't find anything that really shows me, or it looks "generated"?

I'd like to have a telescope, but I don't have money

Look at the sun. With special precautions tho. Then you know what a star looks like. The shiny stars in the night sky are all suns existing or long time goners.

 

[astrogeek]

Here is one of my pictures of the lagoon nebula.

and the Southern Pinwheel galaxee

I am going to Swinburn again this coming weekend to take some fresh pics. I will post them if you want.

 

[mercurial]

Hi astro. What kind of equipment did you use for those pics?

 

[marine1]

Awesome photos.

 

[astrogeek]

What kind of equipment did you use for those pics?

These were taken using a 12" SC with a 3.3 focal reducer and a MEADE DSI astro camera.

 

[mercurial]

These were taken using a 12" SC with a 3.3 focal reducer and a MEADE DSI astro camera.

Okie dokes

BTW, I'm going to purchase a 8-24mm zoom eyepiece from you soon
I figure they will be useful when I'm viewing nebulae.

 

[Kalvaer]

yes, some pics of mars will be in order, please.

I actually tried tonight.. But by the time it was dark enough to see anything decent mars was too low down... It will be a while again before any of us can take anything worth while Unless Astrogeek has anything saved that is

I've got one or two photo's I've been able to take of the moon though where you think WOW... then you work at the details and realise that the little 3mm crater on your screen is 10km across... and you suddenly feel really small again

 

[nivek]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080730/sc_afp/usspacesaturn

Wed Jul 30, 7:13 PM ET



LOS ANGELES (AFP) - NASA scientists said Wednesday they had found liquid on Saturn's moon Titan, only the second body in the solar system after Earth to have fluid on its surface.

 

[marine1]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080730/sc_afp/usspacesaturn

 

[mercurial]

Thanks nivek. Surprised to see you here

 

[nivek]

just lurking, learning and enjoying the pics

 

[mercurial]

just lurking, learning and enjoying the pics

Hehe, yeah they are great. I wish I had the professional equipment to take similar pics, but those things are bloody expensive.

 

[Crusader]

Unless my Starry Night software is out of whack it seems that there will be another Io shadow transit over Jupiter tonight.

It should be visible from around 22:00 - 24:00.

 

[marine1]

What is an IO shadow?

 

[Crusader]

Io is one of the moons of Jupiter. When Io moves between Jupiter and the sun, you get to see Io's shadow move across the surface of Jupiter, which is called an Io Shadow transit.

As can be seen from this screen shot in Starry Night.

 

[waynegohl]

nice shot there.