re: Question for telescope owners

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In town, go for a smaller diameter goto. Light buckets inside light domes get washed out with too much background light.

5" Televue NP127IS, observatory mounted.

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Holy shite that’s a bad arse picture, you took that with your telescope?

Holy shite, your telescope costs $7k+

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Holy shite that’s a bad arse picture, you took that with your telescope?

Holy shite, your telescope costs $7k+

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This was my exact train of thought

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I've considered getting one but two things make me think it would kill the fun: 1. Re-centering (solved with computerized) 2. Finding good spots around me to take it out

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For 99% of the people this how it goes.

1. Look at the moon.
2. Look at Jupiter’s moons
3. Look at the rings of Saturn
4. Look at Mars.
5. Maybe drag it out to a dark area a couple of times to view some of the easier to see star clusters.
5 Store in closet until it is sold at a garage sale 10 years later.

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Question for telescope owners

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Hey, we gotta nerd over here!

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I recommend the Nexyz adapter if you want to take picture

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Thanks! That was going to be my next question.

If anyone in the BR area is looking for one, I have a Zhumell Z8 8" Dobsonian that's just collecting dust. I paid $400 for it a few years ago and then bought a couple extra eye pieces. I believe I have 1" 4mm, 9mm, and 15mm. And a 2" 26mm for a larger field of view.

These are just a few photos I've been able to do with just snapping photos with my phone up to the eyepiece.

Photos

More photos!

3200 at an estate sale. Wish I’d bought the 14” celestron too.

The reason your eye can see it but not the camera is due to the exposure. Jupiter is really bright, and your eye will adjust to where you can see the bands and the moons simultaneously. But you should have a pro-mode on the camera where you can adjust it down and capture the bands & GRS.

The best astrophotography images are done with a DSLR without the lense and an adapter hooked up to the eyepiece, to where the telescope essentially becomes the lense for the camera. Thousands of images are taken and then stacked using software to produce a high resolution image. This same process can also be done with red, green, and blue filters to produce color images of nebulas, etc.

My next door neighbors probably think I’m completely nuts. They can see me from their upstairs windows in my backyard at 2:00 am, crouched over, wearing a full mosquito net suit.