Jupiter Through My Telescope

Great shot Geo! I showed my coworker your capture too. :D

I would, but there is really nothing special about photographing stars and they usually won't twinkle as much through the telescope.

Wow, I could never see anything like that with my ol 4,5 10.1" Odyssey II Coulter Dobsonian.

I was always too busy with the bump and pull to let the scope settle down for more than a few seconds at high mag with the Meade ultra wide angle 4.8 mm. Rarely did the scope and the sky settle down at the same time.

Computer control of the scope hooked up to a laptop is giving me the itch to get back in the groove.

I was seeing these almost every night in central Texas,
back in late Nov.
They aren't stars. I haven't noticed or looked for them
in a few months. There were two I could see simultaneously.
I have a Celestron CPC925 XLT, but didn't scope the objects.
I could tell from looking through bino's they aren't stars,
or I never seen stars with flashing lights like that.
Next few weeks I'll be out more with the scope, it's warming up now. If I see em, I'll image one with an Atik Titan CCD
and see what I get, and post it. No stacking I am guessing due to the flashing lights but with 15 frames a sec, maybe
catch a good frame. They are bizarre, maybe another sky watcher knows what these are?

Tie some bricks to your scope

Tardtards

Yeah. You should get a decent shot with that.

Right now with a 25 I believe mm eye piece ole' joops looks like a bright white...star I guess...along with 4 moons that look like less bright stars. I imagine I need a better eye piece. Thanks.

Question to computer am astronomers. Do you put your ccd device at the focal plane or use an eyepiece and jerry rig your iphone to it?

Thanks

For planets, I put my webcam through a 2x Barlow.

so you use it like an eyepiece. How about wide objects like M31 Andromeda

For example I had no problem capturing it and the two satellite galaxies (M81 and M82?) in the same field with my ol university optics Konig II

I just place it into the eyepiece spot. I have a Orion G3 color imager camera for deep sky objects.

Twinkling stars. Scintillation causes rapid color shifts.

Great stuff

Jupiter has a deadly radiation field surrounding it

We should send some of our prisoners there

Does this field extend all the way out to the moons?

Does this field extend all the way out to the moons?