Jupiter
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.
dude what are taking about
ok all the 63 moons got destyoed and comets but it didnt destroyed nine of them
good this that lo didnt got destoyed
500th 5 star rating!, well done with the explanation thanks for explaining about the telescope
I’ve seen Jupiter with my 10″ classic many times and each time it’s different(usually because of atmospheric disturbances) transits are fun to watch since you can see movement in realtime. when seeing is very good the bands and the festoons really stand out. Now is a good time to see Jupiter because another “spot” is supposedly forming and you can tell changes have happened if you’ve seen Jupiter before(I would reccomend at least owning a 10″ scope and higher for sweet viewing)
You are stupid. get off the internets dude.
Read the description of this video,he has a 11″ Celestron which is a goto scope(when properly aligned will go to any object he selects and will track(stay with it) for hours. One of the reason I wanted a goto than getting a dob which is a push type scope(in order to stay in viewing range of object you must keep pushing dob to keep up and it doesn’t track) and you have to manually search for objects.
Got this scope. I wish I had better skies where I live without traveling an hour+. I took it to the peak 8-9 parking lot in Breckenridge. I was looking at M13 and a defense department spy sat went though my field of view.
thank you for these Jupiter images
how much do you pay? I’m thinking of getting an Orion Dob (go to) or one of the Celestron Nexstars.
Be aware that the Orion Dobs are not actually “go to”, they’re push to. They have encoders on each axis and after you align the scope, you pick a target and the scope directs you to push left, right, up or down until you bring a counter to zero. It is a good setup, but don’t be letdown because it doesn’t move on its own. I have one and don’t use the controller at all anymore. Trust me here, buy the biggest mirror you can afford, it is so worth it! Good luck!
yesterday night, my brother an i, we watched jupiter too threw his telescope. we saw 4 moons. but your telescope is much better than ours.
greetings from germany
That’s why I’m getting an 8″ Orion Newtonian as a bare tube, so I can put it on a go to mount in the future. I was so looking forward to a Dob until I figured out that I could put a bare tube on any mount I wanted, including a Dobsonian mount, which I can build myself.
AMazing images, nice vid.
I was looking at jupiter last night with my 5.1″ reflector, it was small at 65x magnification, but you can easily see the cloudbands. and with a filter its quite beautiful, even through a small telescope like mine in a light polluted area. I cant wait to get out to a dark site
Very beautiful! 5 stars.
Hi very nice video, can you tell me what kind of eyepiece you used and also the type of camera . Thanks
@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!
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!
@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!
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.
Thundry jupiter
im guessing those 4 “star” looking things next to jupiter when u zoom in are one of the 60 some moons of jupiter..
Anybody look at Jupiter lately? …. Its southern belt has dissappeared.
i just saw Jupiter, pretty light planet for me.
great stuff man
“ahhh the smell of fresh optics” lol