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Hello, i have a presentation for astronomy and I need to understand how Kepler received to find the elliptical orbit of mars. Therefore I use his book Astronomia Nova and due to its hard to comprehend its scientific language, additionally I use this website too: New Astronomy Well, I have difficulties with understand two main aspects: First; In Chapter 51 of Astronomia Nova, Kepler determines the distance between Mars and sun. From that he corrects his hypothesis of chapter 40. (Chapter 56) Picture After that in Chapter 58 is rejects his hypothesis he made in chapter 56. What w
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Greetings, I thought I'd share with you all this little arty farty collage I made of the moon and some of the planets: Jupiter, Mars and Saturn. All the photos were taken by holding my iPad to my 8inch dob. They were then processed on my iPad and put together on Instagram. Not amazing I know but I was quite chuffed considering my technical limitations. clear skies, Thomas
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Just joined this forum guys, loving the look and feel of it so far. I am from the UK and my particular obsession is Mars as you can see from my avatar I am a complete newbie so be gentle
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Hey SGL, So i have just got out my telescope for the first time and was able to locate Mars so thought i would take a look. So i have set up my Skywatcher 150p and am unable to see anything worthwhile... All i see is a slightly red looking sphere with absolutely no detail whatsoever... I googled to see what Mars should look like through a telescope and it is nothing like what i can see! Here are the eyepieces i have been using: (all came with the telescope) 10mm 25mm Wide Angle 2x Barlow So i am able to achieve on my 750mm scope a max of 150x magnification i think (2x -
The Moon joins the planets for this evenings showdown through a halo of river mist. Planets Mars & distant Neptune at upper left with Venus at lower right below the Moon. Pentax K5 Pentax 75mm lens @ f11 Exp 15 secs tracking iso 800 Moon & planets in evening mist halo 2nd Jan 2017 by Mike Dickson, on Flickr -
Finally got a decent view of Venus and Jupiter last night. Yesterday evening was a beautiful end to the day in "darkish" Bedfordshire. Nothing complicated about the images, just the Canon 450 on a tripod. Venus was a fairly easy spot around 8:15 around 5 degrees above the horizon and 20 degrees to the left of where the sun had set. This was taken later once Venus and Jupiter had cleared the cloud bank above. This would have been a straight forward capture if it wasn't for the incredible amount of air traffic, one of my images had 7 aircraft in the field of view! I could h -
hi, the coordinates for m39 open cluster is ra 21h31m7s,dec 48 27 0,azimuth 10 38 55,alt 53 35 27..how to set this in my eq mount telescope..my scope is celestron 130eq...if i learnt this it will be easy for me..i tried INTERNET but don't know to set in scope...
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Before I focused on meteors (got clouded out ), I took advantage of a break in the clouds in the southern sky and took this wide-angle shot of the beautiful triangle formed by Saturn (top), Antares (bottom left) and Mars (bottom right) in Scorpius. The waxing gibbous moon is hiding behind a tree branch. Going to try for some Perseids all this weekend while dodging clouds!
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This planetary grouping from 20th March around 5.30am shows Saturn to the left with conjunction of Jupiter above & Mars below, sharp eyed may also see... Io, Ganymede & Callisto in a string just right of Jupiter. Image taken from Lesmahagow, South Lanarkshire looking toward the SE. Pentax K1 / Pentax 67 165mm lens / Exp. 2 secs @f8 / iso 200 Ioptron tracker at siderial.
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Hello everyone, second big night out with the scope and wasnt a bad one at that. The moon was at 98% full so bright as a spotlight on my now "claimed" dark sky spot out in the sticks around fife. Didnt see anything but the brightest stars but Jupitar, Mars and Saturn were still there shining bright as always to much enjoyment. The moon however was spectacular. I found that the moon filter was taking alot of the detail away and hiding alot in shadows so opted to use a 90° angle mirror and a barlow coupled with a 20mm lens to give a duller picture and it was fantastic! Got a quick pic
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Hi, I'd like to share with you a picture I took a few days ago, with Mars still approaching opposition [shoot details here] I know the image itself is not great, but unfortunately, I won't be able to take any more, for now... my telescope mount and eyepieces/camera suitcase were stolen a few days after that
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Hi guys, Any tips for observing Mars? I've observed Jupiter and Saturn many times and am able to extract a good amount of detail using my ED 127 Apo and my C9.25. However Mars seems to yield no detail at all. It is less than 20 degrees up in the sky and I'm not using any filters. Are filters the solution? If so, which colour? Cheers Fish
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My time spent on Saturday 29th round about 11-12pm BST resulted in these images: Both are taken using the NA140SSF with televue 5* powermate (~f/27)and astronomik filters. Mars is Red and Saturn is L. Mars blue channel wasn't worth keeping, the frame rate on the ZWC120 was too low and the image so poor. G was better, L better still and R best. What is the best opportunity for synthetic here - re-use L as blue ? Both acquired in FireCapture for 9o seconds using image stabilisation and stacked in registax. I tried an alternate path of Pipp + AS2 but AS2 put some horrible artifacts
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The skies cleared and I jumped at the opportunity to image Mars at actual opposition and here is the result. This time, I used my barlow and imaging device with the Orion SkyView 180, yielding a larger image. There is a little atmospheric turbulence here and there but some moments of really good seeing and suitable frames for stacking. I used the same music for this video as I did in the "Mars Near Opposition" video. Enjoy! Regards, Reggie
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The skies cleared and I jumped at the opportunity to image Mars at actual opposition and here is the result. This time, I used my barlow and imaging device with the Orion SkyView 180, yielding a larger image. There is a little atmospheric turbulence here and there but some moments of really good seeing and suitable frames for stacking. I used the same music for this video as I did in the "Mars Near Opposition" video. Enjoy! Regards, Reggie
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Hello Astronomers, After a 5 month break from imaging due to moving house, I managed to setup the gear and get a couple of images that (I think) are worth sharing. These are quick processes of the data captured, but I'm happy enough with them to share. I'll spend some more time processing the data later and if it's an improvement I'll reshare the pics. Thank for looking, Mariusz
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Having missed an idyllic morning last week, I spotted a gap in the forecast which looked like a clear morning sky coming. Not disappointed! I love a waning moon and arrived on site with the grab and go outfit at 3:30 to see the crescent just about 10 degrees above the eastern horizon. This got the first observation as it was bathed in amber hues from our air which give it a rich warmth. Aside from a few wisps and thin films, it was clear and cold. Seeing was good enough to push the mag up high. Jupiter was a beautiful marble at 85x. Two dark barges were very distinct. You know the
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Hi, all! I spent some quality time with Mars last weekend as Syrtis Major was well-placed for imaging. I connected a Shorty Barlow (2X) to my little Orion Electronic Imaging Eyepiece (analogue version) on my Orion StarMax 127 and got a cool video of the red planet. Some atmospheric turbulence got in the way because of the relatively low elevation, but features were clearly detectable as was the stunning red hue. I was so excited, I even composed some space music especially for the event! It's a good thing I chose to image at that time because clouds have rolled in this week (of course) and thr
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Hi, all! I spent some quality time with Mars this past weekend as Syrtis Major was well-placed for imaging. I connected a Shorty Barlow (2X) to my little Orion Electronic Imaging Eyepiece (analogue version) on my Orion StarMax 127 and got a cool video of the red planet. Some atmospheric turbulence got in the way because of the relatively low elevation, but features were clearly detectable as was the stunning red hue. I was so excited, I even composed some space music especially for the event! It's a good thing I chose to image at that time because clouds have rolled in this week (of course) an- 12 replies
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A couple of shots from this morning showing Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Mercury all lined up. Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Mercury by 1CM69, on Flickr Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Mercury by 1CM69, on Flickr
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Taken from my home in Tenerife on morning 8 Oct
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Hi all, before going comet hunting tonight I went and found a nice vantage point to observe tonights conjunction of Venus and Mercury. I believe I read they were around 1degree separated. They look great hanging low in the dusk sky and Mars was also visible higher up and more southerly. I took quite a few images but this 4sec ISO100 shot was my favourite. IMG_5654.cr2.tif https://www.flickr.com/photos/116958085@N07/16246201211/ -
Mars from last night with the Skywatcher Pro 150, EQ5 manual tracking with Xbox 360 camera, 2x Barlow, UV/IR cutoff filter. 3 different processes from the same stacked image. 30fps, 3500 frames stacked in AS!2 from 5200 total, wavelets in RS6 and finished in PDN.
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Well I'm still at it with the Xbox 360 webcam but this time using Firecapture and without Barlows. What I did notice while processing was most images didn't need RGB align. The only downside was a smaller image to work with. Conditions seemed average to good. Celestron Nexstar 8i, 2 short extension tubes and Celestron UV/IR Cutoff filter Mars 30fps, 3000 frames from 6000 stacked in AS!2, wavelets in RS6, finished in PDN. Saturn 17fps, 2000 frames from the best 4000 using PIPP from 9000 total, stacked in AS!2, wavelets in RS6, finished in PDN. The ne
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I thought I would have a crack at imaging Mars last night as I haven't taken any planetary images since 2014. I forgot what fun you can have with trying to focus and locate the target on a tiny CMOS chip! Despite its elevation being a pitiful 16 degrees it did at least produce some detail. Also tried Saturn but initial results look pretty poor. ASI120MC, x2 Barlow, Celestron 8SE. Fire Capture, PIPP, Auto Stakkert 2, Registax 6, PS 2015CC 2000 frames, best 10% processed
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