White Planets???

[Riduko]

I've observed both Mars and Jupiter, but both of them appears as white discks instead of what other people say that i can see throuh my telescope. It's a Bresser Skylux EL 70/900 (LIDL telescope)

[Riduko]

why is that?

[LukeSkywatcher]

Its could be either a focus problem or your local "seeing" conditions. Possibly a combination of both.

[Mukv]

Greetings

Try using a moon filter to reduce the glare from the target planet it maybe just over bright with your equipment

Andy

[ronin]

If the magnification on Jupiter is too small then the overall brightness just makes what you see as white.

In binoculars it is always white for this reason.

Equally if the image is not reasonably focused the light is spread over everything and again white.

Mars should come out Orange/Red no matter what.

Mars will just show as a small disk in your scope, Jupiter if the eyepieces are fair should display a couple of bands.

[Riduko]

thanks for all of your help, I haven't got the opportunity to look at mars yet, but i can see the bands on jupiter now