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Moon Pictures

February 23rd, 2012 17 comments

This is how you can see the moon through my telescope. Zo kun je de maan zien door mijn telescoop. Tu peux voir la lune comme ça à travers mon télescope. So könnst du der Mond durch mein Teleskop sehen. These are some pictures I still had. They were good enough to put on YouTube : ) You can see everything the moon has to offer. Craters, big lava seas (mares), mountains (montes) and even the Alps Valley (Vallis Alpes). Some people don’t believe that you can actually see all this. I got a message for them: look up into the sky every now and then. Go visit a public observatory, soyou can see it with your own eyes. Discover the incredible surface of the moon. When I showed the moon to my mother she actually asked me: “What is that?” And I was thinking “Huh? Did a plane pass in front of the moon or something?” I looked up. No planes. So I said: “That’s the moon mom”. “Really?”. “Yes”. This is not sci-fi. This is something you can see with your own eyes and it is beautiful. Telescope details: “”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"” Omegon Telescope EQ2 Mount (Newtonian Reflector) Focal Length = 920 mm (= 36 inch) Mirror Diameter = 130 mm (= 5 inch) Focal length used eyepieces: 25 mm (= 1 inch) 10 mm (= 0,4 inch) Also used a 2x Barlow lens Magnifications: 36x, 92x, 184x No filters used. Photographs taken with a Sony Cybershot DSC-W80. Music: Flawed Legacy by Martin O’Donnell Halo 2 Original Soundtrack

Devil’s Lake State Park. Kodak Zi8 Test Through a Telescope, 175X Magnification Detail Test.

February 11th, 2012 No comments

Opposite side of Devil’s lake state park, close to 1 mile away, filmed in 720p at 60fps using 175X magnification with view outside the eyepiece at the end. Labor day at the Wisconsin Devil’s lake state park. Using a Kodak Zi8 HD camera and a 80 mm aperture Stellarvue Night Hawk telescope. Video part of various shots to test resolution and focus, mostly hand held with a bit of help using a rubber band.

Night Sky Images II

February 10th, 2012 25 comments

Astrophotography by Terry Hancock. Using Canon 5D Mark II (modified) DSLR Camera, TMB 130SS F7 Refractor, Mountain Instruments MI 250 GEM. Shot from the Downunder Observatory in Fremont Michigan USA. These are the best of my images for 2010 (and a couple from 2009 that were shot using the QHY8 OSC) they include: M45 Pleiades Star Cluster, M31 Andromeda Galaxy, M33 Triangulum Galaxy, M42 The Great Nebula in Orion, Western Veil and Pickerings Triangle, The Iris Nebula, The Bubble Nebula, The Cocoon Nebula, M81 Galaxy. I hope you enjoy it. Terry Hancock