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Astronomy Buffs - Images through my new Telescope from Last Night
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:03 pm
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:03 pm
I just got a new telescope, somewhat unique in that you do not observe through the scope, but rather the targets are transmitted to your smart phone via wifi.
Blue Snowball Planetary Nebula in Andromeda Constellation. Planetary nebula are not associated with a planet, but are gaseous balls as a result of stars dying.
Andromeda Galaxy the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. Larger than the Milky Way, the two galaxies are on a course to collide in 4 to 5 billion years.
Blue Snowball Planetary Nebula in Andromeda Constellation. Planetary nebula are not associated with a planet, but are gaseous balls as a result of stars dying.
Andromeda Galaxy the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. Larger than the Milky Way, the two galaxies are on a course to collide in 4 to 5 billion years.
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Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:04 pm to blueridgeTiger
What kind of setup is that? Nice
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:04 pm to blueridgeTiger
Whew, thought I was gonna see Uranus!
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:04 pm to blueridgeTiger
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Andromeda Galaxy the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. Larger than the Milky Way, the two galaxies are on a course to collide in 4 to 5 billion years.
I hope they have insurance.
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:05 pm to blueridgeTiger
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I just got a new telescope, somewhat unique in that you do not observe through the scope, but rather the targets are transmitted to your smart phone via wifi.
How do you know they aren't just pulling an image from a database while Chinamen laugh at you?
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:12 pm to Ingeniero
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How do you know they aren't just pulling an image from a database while Chinamen laugh at you?
At the very least, it would seem like it would kill the whole buzz of actually 'looking through the telescope' and thinking 'I'm really physically LOOKING at this shite, cool!'
I dig the pics, though.
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:12 pm to Oates Mustache
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What kind of setup is that?
Basically a 4.5" reflector.
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:13 pm to blueridgeTiger
Yes please describe your setup for this.
Thanks
Thanks
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:15 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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Andromeda Galaxy the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. Larger than the Milky Way, the two galaxies are on a course to collide in 4 to 5 billion years.
I hope they have insurance.
Gordon is about to get paid
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:15 pm to blueridgeTiger
Very cool. I was expecting some Cracker Jack box telescope with blurry images of nothing much. This looks like Hawking type of stuff.
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:36 pm to blueridgeTiger
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Larger than the Milky Way, the two galaxies are on a course to collide in 4 to 5 billion years.
Yeah, about twice as large. Milky Way finna get wrekt, though very few stars of the hundreds of billions within the two galaxies will actually collide. But the supermassive black holes at the center of each galaxy should eventually merge.
I've been looking at telescopes lately, but not sure I'd like having to look at my phone to see what it's pointing at.
ETA: This stat always blows my mind...Andromeda is the closest galaxy to us, and yet it's still about 2.5 million light years away.
This post was edited on 10/6/21 at 4:38 pm
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:45 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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I've been looking at telescopes lately, but not sure I'd like having to look at my phone to see what it's pointing at.
I've had at least a dozen telescopes over the last 20 years but I'm down to only three right now. This was just something that I thought would be different.
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:45 pm to blueridgeTiger
Did you get the Unistellar with or without the eyepiece?
I don’t want to pay for the one with the eyepiece but have wondered if it is odd not to be able to look through it.
I don’t want to pay for the one with the eyepiece but have wondered if it is odd not to be able to look through it.
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:47 pm to blueridgeTiger
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but rather the targets are transmitted to your smart phone via wifi.
Please tell me you used a Samsung Galaxy for this
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:49 pm to CrawKing
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Did you get the Unistellar with or without the eyepiece?
I got the model without the eyepiece.
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:52 pm to blueridgeTiger
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I've had at least a dozen telescopes over the last 20 years but I'm down to only three right now.
Then you should know those images did not come from the scope itself. Maybe if it was a large Dobsonian light bucket with a high-quality mirror and eyepiece but not a tiny 4.5" Newtonian reflector. It is an interesting concept but it might as well be a pointer on a tripod that pulls up the image. Not saying it isn't cool but those images did not come "through" your scope.
This post was edited on 10/6/21 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 10/6/21 at 5:03 pm to Obtuse1
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It is an interesting concept but it might as well be a pointer on a tripod that pulls up the image. Not saying it isn't cool but those images did not come "through" your scope.
Wait, so it just points in a general direction of where something is in the sky at that time and then shows you a stock image of it?
Posted on 10/6/21 at 5:04 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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Wait, so it just points in a general direction of where something is in the sky at that time and then shows you a stock image of it?
Me Chinese, me play joke, me put picture in your scope
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