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I would like to know what type of telescope should I buy to begin with. I'm not a professional astronomer, but i'd like to get into the subject further. Even started to get involved in chemistry and physics. lol.. please help. thanks
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Hi Stargazers lounge, My first post to post my first moon image. This image was taken on my iphone, which was unmounted, through my Celestron 127slt. Sorry for the blur! Gassendi Crater is a very beautiful feature and this phase of the moon really shows the detail of the rim. Any comments appreciated! Clear skies!
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Hello out there: I was hoping to find a few geeks who like to do their own numerical astro-programming, rather than only using the free software found on the Internet. I use PHP for my work, since it can handle massive astronomical computations far beyond the reach of Java script. It seems like doing your own astro-computing from scratch is a fading art, so I'm trying to keep it alive on the Internet. Right now, I'm concentrating on the moon. Not the Jean Meeus moon, but the NASA/JPL DE405 moon, which is much more accurate (theoretically to the nearest second and lunar distance to
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Hi all, The moon isn't one of my usual subjects, but I recently took hold of a ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled and was trying it out last Friday night/Saturday morning. After a night of indifferent tracking making all my long-exposure a bit eggy-of-star, I took a look at the beautiful half moon and decided to give it a try with the new camera. The scope is a C9.25 with the f6.3 focal reducer attached, so the 4/3rds sensor just managed to get everything in frame. Shot about 200 frames of video and ran it through autostakkert! with final tweaks in AstroArt for colour balance (I use an IDAS D1 LPR filt
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Hello After processing a film on the subject the result was not good, but he dragged one that ultimately was much better. This is in IR 685 which leaves a little margin to do better with less turbulence. Once again it is my best picture of this area. Good walk over. The lighting in the axis showcases the rilles perpendicular to the detriment of the main rille in which we begin to see details. the lunar Alps were likely formed by a sudden collision that created the giant impact basin known as the Mare Imbrium or Sea of Rains. Have a good day. Luc At 75% -
Moon from 20th Oct 2016. 3 single frames stacked. Moon 79.7% Waning Gibbous [2016.10.20] by 1CM69, on Flickr
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Hello An evening not too bad compared to others of this lunation and to the view of the results. Yet the turbulence was there but in the holes there were visible details on the screen. The high moon helped me a lot. I took some classics to check the quality and took more exotic craters. For the first time I had good conditions to have Gassendi I am very satisfied. The 625 mm becomes more and more efficient. What previously was exceptional now becomes normal. I hope you like it. As usual a reduced image and a large format. Clear skies. Luc
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Been waiting for days in anticipation for the first clear night with my new SW 200P reflector and HEQ5 mount. I found instantly that I couldn't locate the North Star due to bloody trees and also the moon was so bright it made all other objects so much more dim in my scope. The Polaris Alignment scope LED's are so bright I couldn't align any star in the scope at all, let alone see through it. I did check it was clear and it didn't have the cap on or the weight bar obstructing it. I tried adjusting the brightness but found no settings in the SynScan handset for my model! I also found out that m- 12 replies
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What are the chances of seeing an impact on the moon? I see there was an impact in March 2013 visible to the naked eye. Then an even bigger one later that year. They might have created craters 20 and 40 meters across. Did they know beforehand? And could they tell us in future? And what are the chances of one ten times bigger? I know you'd need luck. The impact on the facing side of the moon. A clear night. It indeed being night at the time. The moon being visible at all. But would be great to see it. Is there any chance in the next 15 years or am I asking the impossib
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Hey guys, My apologies if this has been discussed before but would appreciate some tips. My son is obsessed with satellites, loves them! We got him a telescope for his BD and he spent like three hours with his dad looking at the moon the other day, hoping to catch a glimpse of at least one. We've read that given how many are orbiting the Earth, if we point a telescope at the moon - one is bound to cross in front of it per hour (at least) and it can be observed. Maybe we're doing something wrong because we saw nothing and he was absolutely devastated. Do you have any advice on
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Hi, what's the best scope for close-up photos/video of the Moon ? I read that the highest practical power worth going for is 300x due to atmospheric conditions etc, i also read that refractors are better resolution. I'd like to photograph/video close-ups of crater edges, mountains etc .. I'm pretty sure i should get a skywatcher due to all the good reviews and their price vs performance. Thanks for any help -
Good morning everyone, This is my first 'official' picture of the moon. I took 14 images, but this is the one I brought into Photoshop to adjust the levels to produce this image. Took it last night around 11pm on my Bresser AR-102S with an Olympus E-500, Manual mode, 1/4000 exposure time, ISO 800. While I am the first to admit, I have no idea what I am doing, but I am having fun figuring it out and was fairly pleased with this result. Any comments, recommendations, advice greatly appreciated.
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Hello Very bad condition that September 11, 2016 with a low Moon, turbulence, wind, only the IR filter 807 allowed to see by moment the craters inside Clavius. So a lot of work processing to present you this image. You can imagine what it could give with good conditions. 24", barlow 4 (11m FL), filter IR807. Camera QHY 5-III 178m Reduced to 80% Clear skies. Luc
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So i managed to get the 'scope out for an hour or so a little earlier on this evening just before things started getting cloudy here! I took all the photo's with my iPhone 6 Plus by holding up the camera to the EP... (some of the photo's didn't turn out that well as a result... Either way here are the two best shot's i took (These are my first EVER photo's taken through the 'scope) Above taken with 10mm EP Above taken with 25mm EP
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Storms are moving in so had the bring the rig inside for who knows how long so here is my obligatory evil orb shot of course. This was done with my 90's C8 using of all things my AstroTech field flattener which is the only correcter I have that actually works on my SCTs go figure. Pretty sharp side to side. 10k captured AVI frames using BYEOS and my T5i in planetary mode and used the best 3500 of those stacked using PIPP, AS!2 and finally Registax. Slight tweeking in Camera RAW and resized for post. Let me know what you think.
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Hi all, yesterday evening I got cold fingers at -3°C when sitting behind my 5" MAK doing a sketch of lunar crater Eratosthenes. Telescope: Celestron Nexstar 127 SLT Eyepiece: Skywatcher 5mm UWA 58° Date & Time: Jan 6th, 2017 / 1740-1840 CET Location: home terrace, Dusseldorf region, Germany Technique: natural charcoal and chalk on black sketching paper Size: 11"x11" Image is mirror-reversed. Eratosthenes is about 58km in diameter and is located at the western end of the Apennines. On the sketch you can see as well the western rim of the low
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Finally managed to see something through the Bresser CCD, recorded my first footage of the Moon I was battling with wind, a crappy tripod and a broken off pan-handle so forgive the wobble please ! https://www.dropbox.com/s/kydegcjeacpl22j/20170109202328.avi?dl=0 Through a Celestron 70 travel scope (400mm), a 2x Barlow and a Bresser CCD. Cheers, Gary.
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Hi Everyone I've just got a new telescope as a Christmas present from my husband. Its a Celestron Nexstar 130 SLT. I've had two goes with it, first one not so successful, but last night took it out to view the moon and was hooked instantly. The view was stunning. I'm keen at the moment to spend more time just on the moon. I noticed last night that despite only a small amount of moon showing it was very bright and not comfortable to look at for too long. Looking online there are a lot of suggestions that a moon filter is a good idea for exploring the moon and getting really good imag
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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 -
I upgraded me telescope before I'd even really used the first one,tonight I gave the kid across my street my celestron power seeker 114 eq in the hopes he would get some joy out of it (he was literally over the moon) went back over to align his red dot finder and show him the basics on how to use it.... first observation was the moon... Beautiful as always!!!! then lightly lower to the right and BANG!!!!!! Venus and one of its moons (don't know how many it has?) Venus was a glowing blob with a moon to its right which I thought was truly amazing! venus
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Hi All, I had a another quick play with the meade etx90 and canon 6D tonight, -2 and freezing my whats its off. Second shot with this set up. Thanks Matt Full Moon 97.1% by Matthew Doogue, on Flickr
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Got a photo of the Moon with corona a couple of nights ago, not through the telescope but through a camera, hope that's allowed ? Cheers, Gary.
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I normally post in the deep sky section but after a software upgrade to my acquisition software I wanted to check that everything was OK, so since the moon was at 97% I decided to take a lunar image. I selected my 3nm Ha filter, primarily in an attempt to maximise contrast. Since, I've never processed a lunar image before I only followed my normal processing procedure, using Registar for the stacking of the 20 sub frames each exposed for 0.1s. Alan
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I watch a lot of amateur astronomy videos on YT now that i've got into it as a hobby, we all know the Moon is an unlikely partner in space, why it's here (i think there's around five competing theories as to it's appearance in our Solar system), why it has such a low apparent density, why it's the perfect size to eclipse the Sun, transient Lunar phenomenon etc ... One thing i find hard to explain is the hexagonal craters. A quick search brings up lots of academic resuolts, it's obviously an interesting problem to many serious researchers, how can a normal impact crater go from round to he
