More success with telescope

[joust]

CGEM1100 + EOS5D straight through telescope. 1/200th exposure.


3.3MP Colour CCD straight through telescope. 9x44ms exposures combined. Moon was setting hence colour.


3.3MP Colour CCD straight through telescope. 12x15s exposures combined. Saturn and 3 of it's moons.


J

[gary71]

Saturn!

Fantastic!

My son has a huge great scope (impressive size rather than quality though!) and whilst great for the moon (I can get a similar view to my eyes if not a camera) I have never managed to spot a planet.

Is there a (simple!) site you can go onto to get a idea of where to look from where you are at a particular time of night?

[untakenname]

If you have an android mobile phone then googles skymap is invaluable, you can find out any star or planet within seconds just by pointing the phone at the sky.

http://www.google.com/sky/skymap/

[gary71]

untakenname said:

If you have an android mobile phone then googles skymap is invaluable, you can find out any star or planet within seconds just by pointing the phone at the sky.

http://www.google.com/sky/skymap/

iPhone. Damn.

[joust]

gary71 said:

untakenname said:

If you have an android mobile phone then googles skymap is invaluable, you can find out any star or planet within seconds just by pointing the phone at the sky.
http://www.google.com/sky/skymap/

iPhone. Damn.

Similar iphone apps are available, e.g. http://www.star-map.fr/,http://www.carinasoft.com/products/skyvoyager/inde... etc.

Or, you can download Stellarium for free. http://www.stellarium.org/

J

Edited by joust on Monday 24th May 17:30

[Lambochick]

gary71 said:

Is there a (simple!) site you can go onto to get a idea of where to look from where you are at a particular time of night?

There is a piece of software that is free to download, really simple to use, and updates in real time to tell you what you can see in the night sky at any given time. To make it as accurate as possible, you need to enter your location, but for general viewing I ahve found that selecting the nearest big town is good enough.

I tend to run it on my laptop, as I can then sit outside with it trying to work out where everything is.

I can't remember the site address, but if you Google 'Stellarium', you should find it.

ETA. That'll teach me to read all the posts - I see Joust has beaten me to it!

Edited by Lambochick on Monday 24th May 19:31

[gary71]

Thanks to both for the hints, I'll download the app once I can connect to a wi-fi hub somewhere, it's 175mb!

I think I may have just missed the clear nights though

[JJM]

gary71 said:

untakenname said:

If you have an android mobile phone then googles skymap is invaluable, you can find out any star or planet within seconds just by pointing the phone at the sky.

http://www.google.com/sky/skymap/

iPhone. Damn.

Pocket Universe on the iPhone is very good. Worth checking in the app store if you have not purchased anything yet.

[M-J-B]

JJM said:

gary71 said:

untakenname said:

If you have an android mobile phone then googles skymap is invaluable, you can find out any star or planet within seconds just by pointing the phone at the sky.

http://www.google.com/sky/skymap/

iPhone. Damn.

Pocket Universe on the iPhone is very good.

As is 'planets'

It has a map in 2D and 3D and trivia.

Free from memory.

[gary71]

I've not purchased anything yet as I'm still only using the phone, so I'll check out those other suggestions as well. Many thanks

[nammynake]

OP - image of Saturn appears over-exposed. Shorter exposure time should allow you to resolve the main ring structure.

Nice images of the Moon by the way!

[baz7175]

Randomly I was looking at telescopes in Oregon last week, and this bugger you're using was something like 2.5k (and was on special that week)....think I'll make do with the toys a while longer

[Mojocvh]

First result trying "proper" astrophotography, 8" sct straight through. 1000d f0 1/400 iso 800 and a wee play with canon software, I think a bit too much sharpening perhaps??

Can't post full original due to size limits.



I'm more chuffed about using the live view to get the mirror flop just right LOL.

Mo.