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5 minutes ago, cletrac1922 said:
First of all, welcome from Land Down Under
Have you tried looking at Orion and Pleiades, as almost over head currently
John
Yes, yesterday I saw orion. But never ever saw Pleiades
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I tried searching for some easy deep sky objects on the internet but I never got a staright answer. Could someone please name some easy targets that I could use tonight. Mostly in Canis Major or in Canis Minor if possible. The deep sky objects that I am trying to find are quite simple. That can be seen by binoculars. Thanks, any help would always be appreciated. 😀
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22 hours ago, Philip R said:
If you use a filter... either of these --->https://www.firstlightoptics.com/explore-scientific-filters.html (other brands are also available), they will enhance some of the finer detail and your viewing.
Are they applicable to all telescopes?
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Just now, Jiggy 67 said:
As much as I hate to reply to a Utd fan 😀 It certainly sounds like the nebula, it’s unmistakable when you see it, unlike anything else you’ll see visually
Haha. Thanks for the info. MANCHESTER IS RED!
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1 minute ago, John said:
Not astronomical targets. Landscapes, ships at sea, distant animals and birds. That sort of thing.
Thanks.
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Since I am very new to this, I struggle a lot. Especially when observing planets and also recently deep sky objects. My telescope is an amateur telescope and its almost 11 years old (The telescope was re used a year ago). During summer of last year I took photos of Saturn,Jupiter and a month ago took photos of Venus and Mars. About 2 days ago I stumbled upon a new thing in the sky, (Unfortunately, I didn't take a picture). It definitely was in the Orion constellation as I had observed Betelgeuse and the 3 stars that were close to each other. After a couple of minutes later I saw 2 stars next to each other and another two which were on top of the other star, surrounding these set of stars were a blue-ish and grey-ish colour at the same time. I had done some research and many people told me it was the trapezium cluster found in Orion. I honestly don't know. Any ideas? Thanks.
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1 minute ago, Cornelius Varley said:
Erecting eyepieces have their uses, but not many for astronomical use. The main purpose of the eyepiece is to allow you to use a telescope designed for viewing astronomical objects at night during the daytime for viewing of terrestrial objects. Astro telescopes give an inverted image, which is probably not ideal for daytime use, so the erecting eyepiece corrects this giving an upright image. Using this type of eyepiece at night serves no use because a star would look the same through either type of eyepiece.
So, if I want to observe something at daytime I use the erecting eyepiece? What should I observe at daytime?
P.S: Sorry for the weird questions, I am very new to this.
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What did you use for the picture? If you mind me asking. 🤭
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So I'm having some issues recently and have a lot of questions for the erecting eyepiece 1.5x. I want to know if they are useful, better, and i also want to know if they have a lot of detail in them. How do you use a erecting eyepiece? What is it for? When can i use it? Also my issue is when I try to use an erecting eyepiece on a star it is out of focus and cant seem to find the right focus. yesterday I had tried on sirius but it just showed me a huge ball of light. Any help and tips will be appreciated.
Any easy sky objects to observe?
in Getting Started With Observing
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Sorry for responding late. My skies are not bad but you can still see a lot of stars. Are m81 and 82 colliding galaxies?