joehay_yorkshire

it's " I (guess the word ) love science"

Not impressed I have to say as there is no indication of scale, does the image represent the entire northern sky visible at one time, or 10% (or 20% or 30% for that matter)

Also don't understand the statement 'If they were brighter, this is how they would appear in our night sky'!! Really? Well there you go!!

I guess the best scale being the full moon there

I have the 130M (longer focal length than the 130p) and using just the 10mm on its own to give 90x magnification, i get a very clear image of jupiter, seeing four moons and some surface detail - i.e banding and very faintly the GRS.

There loads of advice on this forum, but i'll just say a couple of things - check the collimation of your scope, let the scope cool down for half an hour so all the optics are at the ambient temperature, adjust focus when looking at the moons until they appear as points, allow your eyes to adjust to the dark for over 15 mins. A couple of last things - try watching it through the eyepiece for a few minutes and you should be able to pick out more detail. Finally, your eyes have two types of cells for picking up light, the ones which are in the center of your eye pick up colour and are less sensitive to light, the surrounding cells are primarily black and white and are far more sensitive to light, so if you struggle to see faint objects (applies more for DSOs), then try looking slightly to the side of the object.

Also it could have been viewing conditions

Good luck,

Joe