First night with a telescope

[HoneyBadger-231]

I managed to get this shot from my 1st night (last night), skywatcher heritage 150p and an s21 ultra held up to the eyepiece.... don't ask how I kept it still for 30 seconds cause I honestly don't know 🤷 . I tried Jupiter but all I got was a blurry bright ball . I'm pretty sure the streak was a shooting star .

Edited August 30, 2021 by HoneyBadger-231
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[Pete Presland]

Nice looking image, plenty of stars, was through the telescope or with the camera phone pointing at the sky?

 

[Sunshine]

Great! now you’re officially an amateur astronomer, join the club, enjoy the night sky and share your experiences. 

[HoneyBadger-231]

8 hours ago, Pete Presland said:

Nice looking image, plenty of stars, was through the telescope or with the camera phone pointing at the sky?

 

A cheap used 40mm eyepiece from eBay through the scope and a little love from the photos editor  . I have a phone adapter coming soon, hopefully Jupiter is next 💯

[glafnazur]

That's very nice, well done 👍

I think that's a satellite not a meteor 

Edited August 31, 2021 by glafnazur
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[Stu]

Did you crop the image to be a rectangle? The field of view looks too big to be through a scope and would normally have had a round image from the field stop of the eyepiece?

Regardless, a nice image, hints of MilkyWay showing through perhaps? Which direction was it taken in? Agree I think it’s a satellite not a shooting star are the ends cut off abruptly with the exposure; shooting stars tend to fade in and out at the start and end of the trail.

[HoneyBadger-231]

1 hour ago, Stu said:

Did you crop the image to be a rectangle? The field of view looks too big to be through a scope and would normally have had a round image from the field stop of the eyepiece?

Regardless, a nice image, hints of MilkyWay showing through perhaps? Which direction was it taken in? Agree I think it’s a satellite not a shooting star are the ends cut off abruptly with the exposure; shooting stars tend to fade in and out at the start and end of the trail.

Just took the photo from a 40 mm eyepiece,  zoomed in and squared it up via my phones pic editor I zoomed until it just started to fuzz out . The total distance from left to right in the pic was prolly only 6 feet tops.Those trees are actually 100s of feet up a hill above where I was set up. I'm looking at getting permission from a farmer down the road where its flat and open as the valley I'm in isn't the greatest for lots of views 

[Alan64]

I have a 150mm/6" f/5 Newtonian, just like yours, but a solid-tube...

I got it in 2012, then in 2015 I moved the OTA over to my tripod-type alt-azimuth.  It was much more enjoyable afterwards, being easier to aim.

You can do that, too, someday, if desired.  In the meantime, if you're going to observe Jupiter, Mars and Venus enough to warrant its purchase, a variable-polariser will help you see those objects much better.  Jupiter will not be a bright, white ball any longer.  Instead, you will see the natural colours of the planet's surface, details within the equatorial bands, the festoons and whorls, and at the higher powers, 180x and up.  Jupiter was still too bright at 174x, so I went inside and got the filter.  I then saw glory...

https://www.amazon.com/Variable-Polarizing-Eyepiece-Telescope-Polarizer/dp/B0143M8BFQ/ref=asc_df_B0143M8BFQ/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=416690499814&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11209363740441613353&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9013733&hvtargid=pla-912251474325&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=100759323824&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=416690499814&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11209363740441613353&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9013733&hvtargid=pla-912251474325

The filter acts like a dimmer for indoor-lighting, but for the too-bright lights in the sky instead...

Venus has no surface features, save the craters on the surface perhaps, and to make the Moon envious, but those can't be seen due to the planet's cauldron-like atmosphere.  But since Venus is in between the Earth and the Sun, the planet exhibits Moon-like phases, and the filter will enable you to see those more clearly.

The front of your telescope, and similarly my own, what I call the "cowling", like that of an old-style aeroplane, has three spider-vanes, three "sticks", like a propeller...

Those cause flares on smaller, bright objects, like Jupiter...

...and Mars even, when at opposition...

The filter will reduce, and even eliminate those, as well.

Edited September 1, 2021 by Alan64

[HoneyBadger-231]

14 hours ago, Alan64 said:

I have a 150mm/6" f/5 Newtonian, just like yours, but a solid-tube...

I got it in 2012, then in 2015 I moved the OTA over to my tripod-type alt-azimuth.  It was much more enjoyable afterwards, being easier to aim.

You can do that, too, someday, if desired.  In the meantime, if you're going to observe Jupiter, Mars and Venus enough to warrant its purchase, a variable-polariser will help you see those objects much better.  Jupiter will not be a bright, white ball any longer.  Instead, you will see the natural colours of the planet's surface, and detail within the equatorial bands, the festoons and whorls, and at the higher powers, 180x and up.  Jupiter was still too bright at 174x, so I went inside and got the filter.  I then saw glory...

https://www.amazon.com/Variable-Polarizing-Eyepiece-Telescope-Polarizer/dp/B0143M8BFQ/ref=asc_df_B0143M8BFQ/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=416690499814&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11209363740441613353&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9013733&hvtargid=pla-912251474325&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=100759323824&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=416690499814&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11209363740441613353&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9013733&hvtargid=pla-912251474325

The filter acts like a dimmer for indoor-lighting, but for the too-bright lights in the sky instead...

Venus has no surface features, save the craters on the surface perhaps, and to make the Moon envious, but those can't be seen due to the planet's cauldron-like atmosphere.  But since Venus is in between the Earth and the Sun, the planet exhibits Moon-like phases, and the filter will enable you to see those more clearly.

The front of your telescope, and similarly my own, what I call the "cowling", like that of an old-style aeroplane, has three spider-vanes, three "sticks", like a propeller...

Those cause flares on smaller, bright objects, like Jupiter...

...and Mars even, when at opposition...

The filter will reduce, and even eliminate those, as well.

Great info, I'm ordering a filter right now 😀 

[irtuk]

That's a great image, well done. Welcome to Astrophotography

 

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[RT65CB-SWL]

Fantastic image @HoneyBadger-231 

I have difficulty holding my phone over the e/p for three seconds [and I am not physically impaired]... but for thirty seconds... wow!